Discussion of the RISRS2020 project at NISOPlus 2021. Reducing the Inadvertent Spread of Retracted Science: Shaping a Research and Implementation Agenda - supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Part of Misinformation and truth: from fake news to retractions to preprints Thursday, February 25, 2021 • 11:30am - 12:45pm Eastern Abstract for the session: Connecting the dots: A cross-industry discussion on retracted research Issues around the capturing, acknowledgement, classification, and tracking of retracted research are shared by academic institutions, publishing organizations, and the technology providers who support them. This cross-industry panel, moderated by a researcher and comprised of representatives from a non-profit publisher, an academic library, and a publishing platform provider, will examine shared obstacles and opportunities in processing, documenting, and communicating retractions, and will provide practical strategies for cross-industry collaboration. The panel will be moderated by Jodi Schneider, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jodi and other members of her research team have been spending significant time in 2020 bringing together representatives from all areas of the scholarly communication ecosystem as part of a Sloan-funded agenda-setting project. This moderated conversation will be one deliverable from a series of multiple workshops, interviews, and white papers.

1. A stakeholder consultation & environment scan
• 50 interviews of stakeholders in the scientific publishing ecosystem.
• 70 participants in a 3-part online workshop to interact, react, and reflect
in real-time on the problem retractions pose and possible solutions.
• Literature review of empirical research about retraction
• Citation analysis of retracted research
RISRS2020: Reducing the Inadvertent
Spread of Retracted Science
Jodi Schneider
jodi@illinois.edu

2. 1.What is the actual harm associated with retracted research?
2.What are the intervention points for stopping the spread of retraction?
Which gatekeepers can intervene and/or disseminate retraction status?
3.What are the classes of retracted papers? (What classes of retracted
papers can be considered citable, and in what context?)
4.What are the impediments to open access dissemination of retraction
statuses and retraction notices?
RISRS2020 Motivating Questions
Jodi Schneider
jodi@illinois.edu
Jodi Schneider
jodi@illinois.edu

3. ● Non-Profit Publisher
○ Randy Townsend, Director, Journal Operations at American
Geophysical Union
● Academic Library
○ Caitlin Bakker, Medical School Librarian and Research Services
Coordinator, Health Sciences Library, University of Minnesota
● Publishing Platform Provider
○ Hannah Heckner, Product Strategist, Silverchair
Cross-Industry Perspectives on
Retraction from RISRS2020
Attendees
Jodi Schneider
jodi@illinois.edu
Jodi Schneider
jodi@illinois.edu

4. RISRS2020 Draft Recommendations
1.Make retraction information easy to find and use.
2.Recommend retraction metadata and a taxonomy of retraction statuses that can
be adopted by all stakeholders.
3.Develop best practices for coordinating the retraction process.
4.Educate & socialize researchers and the public about retraction and post-
publication stewardship of the scientific record.
5.Develop standards, software, and databases to support sustainable data quality.
Jodi Schneider
jodi@illinois.edu
Jodi Schneider
jodi@illinois.edu