Plagiarism in the scholarly record, measured by rate.
Plagiarism retractions per 100,000 publications, by country, institution, and discipline — joined from the Retraction Watch database and OpenAlex, with confidence intervals and a stated source quality on every number. Free to browse, cite, and download.
Data updated 2026-06-23 · countries & institutions monthly · cases weekly · news daily
Plagiarism retractions per 100k publications, 2015–2024 — lower is better. For scale, the global high is Pakistan at 20.9.
By raw count, China leads with 564. By rate, it sits at 7.0 per 100k.
High-output research systems accumulate more retractions simply because they publish more. Ranking by absolute count produces a misleading “worst offender” frame; normalizing per 100,000 publications is a correctness requirement. This index never ranks by raw count.
Single years are too sparse to chart given retraction lag; the unit is a rolling window. Measures detected and reported plagiarism, not total plagiarism committed.
Plagiarism retractions per 100k publications, 2015–2024. Countries below the 100k reporting threshold or with no detected retractions show as insufficient data.
Direct measurement
Counted from primary records (Retraction Watch).
Curated aggregate
Compiled from multiple primary sources.
Modeled / inferred
Statistical extrapolation with stated confidence.
Survey-based
Self-reported, with sampling limitations.
Volume of plagiarism-related news coverage worldwide, by month — a current-events signal that spikes when scandals break. Source: GDELT, global online news.
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