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Retraction Watch

Last updated 2026-06-27 · benchmark measured 2026-09-16 — deterministic & reproducible

Retraction Watch tracks retractions of scientific papers by Nobel Prize winners.

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Legit.Show scored Retraction Watch 71/100 on 2026-09-16, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/retractionwatch-com/2026-09-16

Is Retraction Watch production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Retraction Watch 71 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Retraction Watch (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Accessibility; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 59/100
• Accessibility — 93/100
• Security — 25/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 70/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 90/100
• Standards — 92/100
• Discoverability — 70/100

What we measured

• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 123 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 2 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: sitemap, OpenGraph image.

Who built it

Ivan Oransky (@ivanoransky) · product account @RetractionWatch

Who it's for

Scientists · Researchers · Academic institutions · Journal editors · Science journalists

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from retractionwatch.com's own website on 2026-06-27.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-16.

Put together from public information, without Retraction Watch's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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