Research integrity
Source watch: monitor corrections, updates, and retractions
Design a source-monitoring process that turns scholarly updates into reviewable actions for dependent claims.
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Research integrity
A focused reading path through The Evidence Journal. Read scholarly evidence carefully and keep it connected to later changes. This collection covers journal-article interpretation, source versions, corrections, and the review decisions that keep a citation useful over time.
How to use this collection
The academic review guide starts with the claim and follows it through methods, results, and scope. The source-watch guide then explains how to connect update notices to dependent material. Neither workflow replaces specialized expertise or a comprehensive literature review; both make the work actually performed easier to inspect.
Start with the Academic fact checks guide, then follow the fieldnotes below. All examples are illustrative and each article points to its own editorial source.
Research integrity
Academic fact checking: read beyond the abstract
A journal-article review workflow for tracing claims to methods, results, versions, and appropriate qualifications.
Follow the claim. Find the evidence.
Go from a better question to a clearer evidence trail—one fieldnote at a time.