Retracted articles

I wonder if in some teaching sessions I ought to mention two more things, that relate to the literature the teaching hopefully helps students find.  One thing is retracted articles.The other thing is peer review.   Actually in some sessions with first year students, we do talk about the peer review process, and I recommend they look to see if an information source has some sort of peer review process in place.   Maybe having a sort of process is better than not having one at all.  But I am coming across more about the shortcomings of the process.  I occasionally review articles submitted to a library journal.  I was struck by the most recent one I reviewed, that the other reviewer spotted all sorts of things I did not.  Does that mean the process doesn ' t work?  Or that I am not a very good reviewer?   Or does it just show why you have more than one peer reviewer?  Peer review and retractions go together.  The evidence fromRetraction Watch is that the peer review process doesn ' t always work, as retracted articles have often gone through the process, which did not spot the problem.  Some retracted papers might have been written by a " paper mill " , and others by generative AI.  Then, there are some that have used the more established methods of referencing irrelevant studies, using material like images without permission, manipulating images so ...
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