‘Stealth corrections’ uncovered in scientific journals, raising transparency concerns

Unacknowledged post-publication alterations, or stealth corrections, in peer-reviewed papers could signal deeper issues with transparency in scientific publishing, researchers have warned in a preprint. René Aquarius, a biomedical scientist at Radbound University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and his fellow research-integrity sleuths, report 131 cases of what they call ‘stealth corrections’, where journals amend papers without any acknowledgement of their alterations.