Retraction Watch

Retraction Watch - organization reporting scientific paper retraction. This website is the 5322^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites. Article “Retraction Watch” in Italian Wikipedia has 29.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 21 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Italian) language version.

Since the creation of article “Retraction Watch”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 105 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Retraction Watch is on the 5322^nd place in global ranking of websites on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 9 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 203 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #32050 in December 2023
• Global: #113228 in October 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #488260 in December 2020
• Global: #367498 in November 2011

There are 9 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Retraction Watch		41.1523
2	Chinese (zh) 撤稿观察		34.6492
3	Vietnamese (vi) Retraction Watch		32.1668
4	Italian (it) Retraction Watch		29.8775
5	French (fr) Retraction Watch		29.4112
6	Spanish (es) Retraction Watch		26.0983
7	Korean (ko) 리트랙션 워치		25.2144
8	Arabic (ar) مراقب الأبحاث المسحوبة بعد النشر		21.0464
9	Japanese (ja) 撤回監視		10.9009

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Retraction Watch" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Retraction Watch		171 407
2	Japanese (ja) 撤回監視		11 026
3	French (fr) Retraction Watch		4 425
4	Chinese (zh) 撤稿观察		1 110
5	Italian (it) Retraction Watch		1 083
6	Arabic (ar) مراقب الأبحاث المسحوبة بعد النشر		479
7	Vietnamese (vi) Retraction Watch		467
8	Spanish (es) Retraction Watch		340
9	Korean (ko) 리트랙션 워치		96

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Retraction Watch" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Retraction Watch		992
2	Japanese (ja) 撤回監視		100
3	French (fr) Retraction Watch		59
4	Chinese (zh) 撤稿观察		36
5	Italian (it) Retraction Watch		17
6	Korean (ko) 리트랙션 워치		15
7	Spanish (es) Retraction Watch		14
8	Arabic (ar) مراقب الأبحاث المسحوبة بعد النشر		5
9	Vietnamese (vi) Retraction Watch		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Retraction Watch" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Retraction Watch		65
2	Japanese (ja) 撤回監視		12
3	Italian (it) Retraction Watch		10
4	French (fr) Retraction Watch		8
5	Vietnamese (vi) Retraction Watch		5
6	Spanish (es) Retraction Watch		2
7	Chinese (zh) 撤稿观察		2
8	Arabic (ar) مراقب الأبحاث المسحوبة بعد النشر		1
9	Korean (ko) 리트랙션 워치		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Retraction Watch" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Retraction Watch		1
2	Arabic (ar) مراقب الأبحاث المسحوبة بعد النشر		0
3	Spanish (es) Retraction Watch		0
4	French (fr) Retraction Watch		0
5	Italian (it) Retraction Watch		0
6	Japanese (ja) 撤回監視		0
7	Korean (ko) 리트랙션 워치		0
8	Vietnamese (vi) Retraction Watch		0
9	Chinese (zh) 撤稿观察		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Retraction Watch" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Retraction Watch		119
2	Japanese (ja) 撤回監視		41
3	French (fr) Retraction Watch		15
4	Italian (it) Retraction Watch		9
5	Arabic (ar) مراقب الأبحاث المسحوبة بعد النشر		6
6	Korean (ko) 리트랙션 워치		4
7	Spanish (es) Retraction Watch		3
8	Vietnamese (vi) Retraction Watch		3
9	Chinese (zh) 撤稿观察		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مراقب الأبحاث المسحوبة بعد النشر
en	English Retraction Watch
es	Spanish Retraction Watch
fr	French Retraction Watch
it	Italian Retraction Watch
ja	Japanese 撤回監視
ko	Korean 리트랙션 워치
vi	Vietnamese Retraction Watch
zh	Chinese 撤稿观察

Best Rank

Italian: #488260 12.2020

Global: #367498 11.2011

Best Rank

Italian: #32050 12.2023

Global: #113228 10.2020

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