Article: Why are so many studies being retracted? - And what to do about it

[Arvo]

Why Are So Many Studies Being Retracted?
And what to do about it.

by Jackie Flynn Mogensen

Article discusses study retraction, how much more it happens currently, how much more it should happen and how better tools and greater awareness make it easier to investigate and expose misconduct.

It names solutions like paying sleuths who identify misconduct, publishing raw data to allow more transparency and accountability, and encouraging journals to accept and publish studies with a lack of result.


Why Are So Many Studies Being Retracted? – Mother Jones

 

[Creekside]

The more important question is: why are so many studies published with false data, misleading conclusions, etc, and what to do about that? It's a crime, done for personal gain, and the chances of getting caught are low, and the punishments not enough of a deterrence.

 

[Chandelier]

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/22/aking/

This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street executives, top government officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally flawed, and the scholarly community refuses to do anything about it.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1964011

The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance

Authors:
Robert G. Eccles
University of Oxford - Said Business School

Ioannis Ioannou
London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management

George Serafeim
Harvard Business School

Abstract
We investigate the effect of a corporate culture of sustainability on multiple facets of corporate behavior and performance outcomes. Using a matched sample of 180 companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted environmental and social policies many years ago – termed as High Sustainability companies – exhibit fundamentally different characteristics from a matched sample of firms that adopted almost none of these policies – termed as Low Sustainability companies. In particular, we find that the boards of directors of these companies are more likely to be responsible for sustainability and top executive incentives are more likely to be a function of sustainability metrics. Moreover, they are more likely to have organized procedures for stakeholder engagement, to be more long-term oriented, and to exhibit more measurement and disclosure of nonfinancial information. Finally, we provide evidence that High Sustainability companies significantly outperform their counterparts over the long-term, both in terms of stock market and accounting performance. The outperformance is stronger in sectors where the customers are individual consumers instead of companies, companies compete on the basis of brands and reputations, and products significantly depend upon extracting large amounts of natural resources.