Anchors
| Anchor text | Ref. domains ▾ | Top DR | Ref. pages | Links to target | Dofollow links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retraction Watch | 134 | — | 0 | 2898 | 2880 99.4% |
| https://retractionwatch.com/ | 12 | — | 0 | 12 | 10 83.3% |
| here | 11 | — | 0 | 24 | 24 100% |
| http://retractionwatch.com/ | 8 | — | 0 | 1307 | 1305 99.8% |
| retracted | 8 | — | 0 | 13 | 13 100% |
| https://retractionwatch.com/retracted-coronavirus-covid-19-papers/ | 8 | — | 0 | 12 | 11 91.7% |
| Journal silently removes paper for plagiarism, author claims identity theft | 7 | — | 0 | 1101 | 1101 100% |
| https://retractionwatch.com/2026/01/19/corrections-biases-and-humility-in-science-qa-with-tuan-v-nguyen/ | 6 | — | 0 | 16 | 0 0% |
| RetractionWatch | 6 | — | 0 | 6 | 5 83.3% |
| RetractionWatch.com | 4 | — | 0 | 4 | 4 100% |
| https://retractionwatch.com/2026/01/17/weekend-reads-nature-retraction-penalties-retraction-hotspot-universities-analysis-of-piss-journals/ | 4 | — | 0 | 5 | 0 0% |
| https://retractionwatch.com/2026/01/16/business-management-journal-holds-researchers-paper-hostage/ | 4 | — | 0 | 4 | 0 0% |
| https://retractionwatch.com/2026/01/14/nature-retraction-francis-crick-institute-data-manipulation-phd-student/ | 3 | — | 0 | 3 | 0 0% |
| Retraction Watch Database | 3 | — | 0 | 4 | 4 100% |
| arbitrary and capricious | 3 | — | 0 | 4 | 4 100% |
| https://retractionwatch.com/2023/12/19/hindawi-reveals-process-for-retracting-more-than-8000-paper-mill-articles/ | 3 | — | 0 | 3 | 3 100% |
| https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-leaderboard/ | 3 | — | 0 | 3 | 2 66.7% |
| decision signed by FSU Provost James J. Clark | 3 | — | 0 | 4 | 4 100% |
| https://retractionwatch.com/2026/02/03/mega-journal-heliyon-retracts-hundreds-of-papers-after-internal-audit/ | 3 | — | 0 | 5 | 0 0% |
| retractionwatch.com | 3 | — | 0 | 145 | 145 100% |
| means of harassment | 3 | — | 0 | 4 | 4 100% |
| story | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Retraction Watch reported | 2 | — | 0 | 8 | 8 100% |
| retractions | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| statement | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| https://retractionwatch.com/2026/01/07/uk-surgeon-ankur-khajuria-inventor-unreproducible-data-guaranteed-publications/ | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| these guys | 2 | — | 0 | 3 | 3 100% |
| Retraction Watch. | 2 | — | 0 | 5 | 5 100% |
| https://retractionwatch.com/2026/01/15/technobabble-papers-by-professor-and-editor-under-scrutiny/ | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 1 50% |
| 2 | — | 0 | 6 | 6 100% | |
| Sage journal retracts more than 40 papers over concerns with peer review, author contributions | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Ivan Oransky | 2 | — | 0 | 3 | 3 100% |
| After 15 years of controversy, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper | 2 | — | 0 | 3 | 3 100% |
| Why do nearly 45,000 scholarly papers cite themselves? | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| letter | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Here | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Finland group downgrades 60 journals | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Iraqi journal suspected of coercion, two others dropped from major citation databases | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Le blog Retractation Watch | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| https://retractionwatch.com/2020/07/26/paper-blaming-covid-19-on-5g-technology-withdrawn/ | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 1 50% |
| Dana-Farber settles suit alleging image manipulation for $15 million | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Retraction Watch blog | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| ‘A proper editor would be horrified’: Why did a pediatric journal publish articles on the elderly? | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| paper mills | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 1 50% |
| retraction | 2 | — | 0 | 4 | 4 100% |
| papers | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Finance professor in Ireland loses 12 papers in journals he edited | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| When PubMed got it right, Elsevier got it wrong, and Retraction Watch helped clear it up | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Retraction Watch: | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| According to Retraction Watch | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
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