It’s not because papers are corrected by journals that this information is actually communicated to readers. Even though corrections may affect the knowledge reported in a paper, this information may not reach literature users at all. Few bibliographic databases signal the presence of corrections on the entry for an article. Sometimes the information is not even clear on a paper’s website at the journal. Tools for handling references now tend to flag retractions, but not corrections. Our paper in Learned Publishing provides an overview of what platforms communicate that a paper has been corrected – and to what extent they do so. Spoiler: there’s room for improvement!
Excellent digging work by Wytske Hepkema of the Institute for Science in Society (ISiS), together with Frédérique Bordignon at LISIS in Paris. Part of European Research Council (ERC) project NanoBubbles.

Hepkema, Wytske M., Frédérique Bordignon, and Willem Halffman. ‘The Limited Communication of Corrections to Users of Scholarly Platforms’. Learned Publishing 39, no. 4 (2026): e2103. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.2103.