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In a first nationwide review, China’s universities must tell the government all of their retractions from the past three years. Plus, blood proteins reveal dementia risk and Katalin Karikó’s decades-long fight for recognition. In a first nationwide review, China’s universities must tell the government all of their retractions from the past three years. Plus, blood proteins reveal dementia risk and Katalin Karikó’s decades-long fight for recognition.

The journal Ecosystem Health and Sustainability ( EHS) has an enviable roster of high-profile scientists on its editorial board, including noted biologist Paul Ehrlich, an emeritus professor at Stanford University, and Jerry Franklin, an ecosystem analyst at University of Washington, Seattle. There’s only one problem: Many board members are no longer involved with EHS—if they ever were. “I can remember no contact with the journal for years, if ever,” Ehrlich says. “I should not be appearing as associated with the journal,” Franklin adds. Their names ended up on the journal’s m...