What powers retractionwatch.com?

Last seen Jun 2026 · 19 technologies across 15 categories

Caching

WordPress Super Cache
since Jun 2024

CDN

Cloudflare
since May 2024

CMS

WordPress v7.0
since May 2018

Databases

MySQL
since Jun 2018

Font scripts

Google Font API
since May 2018
Twitter Emoji (Twemoji)
since Jun 2018

JavaScript libraries

jQuery v3.7.1
since May 2018
jQuery Migrate v3.4.1
since May 2018

Marketing automation

MailChimp
since Jun 2026

Miscellaneous

HTTP/3
since Jul 2024
Open Graph
since Sep 2022
RSS
since Dec 2022

Page builders

WordPress Block Editor
since Jul 2024

Performance

Priority Hints
since Aug 2023

Programming languages

PHP
since Jun 2018

Web servers

Apache HTTP Server v2.4.59
since May 2018

Widgets

Twitter
since Jun 2018

WordPress plugins

Jetpack
since May 2023

WordPress themes

Twenty Fifteen
since Feb 2022

Top search keywords

KeywordPositionEst. monthly visits
retract #7 350
change #82 260
cureus journal impact factor #2 260
black plastic utensils #6 220
coercion #28 210
surge #88 170
cureus journal #4 160
committee on publication ethics #74 160
nationality #86 130
tin man syndrome #2 78
tin man syndrome #2 78
george m church #10 61
blight meaning #97 57
elife journal impact factor #8 57
elife impact factor #8 57
retracted papers #1 52
retracted paper #1 52
jasti rao #1 52
ivan oransky #1 52
lifted research group #64 47
ping dong #1 43
does tuna have zinc #1 43
buchanan high #95 38
fell #71 35
physics of fluids journal #7 33

The site's top keywords in Google (US), with the visits each one is estimated to bring per month.

Top backlinks

Top links pointing at the site, one per source domain, strongest first. The anchor text opens the page carrying the link.

Audience

  • 68% phone
  • 30% desktop
  • 2% tablet
  • Australia
  • South Africa
  • Singapore
  • Sweden
  • Ireland
  • United Arab Emirates

Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.

Open Page Rank

7.80 / 10 · ranked #10,727 of all domains

2,273 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

5,200 est. monthly organic visits (US)

4,632 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP1.6 s
INP75 ms
CLS0
TTFB1100 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.

Page

  • Language: English (United States)
  • CDN: Cloudflare
  • Weight: 2.0 MB · 28 requests
  • WordPress theme: twentyfifteen · all themes
  • Structured data: OpenGraph

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.

Subdomains

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www.retractionwatch.com 9

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