• A 2010 study by Zeljka Buturovic and Klein published in
Econ Journal Watch purported to show that conservatives and libertarians were better informed than liberals about economics. After receiving criticism, the authors adjusted their research questions in a new study, and published its different findings in 2011.
Jonathan Chait of
The New Republic, who had called the 2010 study "hackery" and "obviously designed to portray conservatives as better informed", • A 2018 article by Alex Young documented that between the 2015
working paper version and the 2017 published version of a paper authored by Andrew Bird and Stephen Karolyi, the numbers in all 11 tables stayed exactly the same, even though the description of the specifications changed. The criticized article was subsequently retracted. • A 2020 article by Justin Pickett analyzed both quantitative and qualitative data about what happened regarding retracted articles by the
criminologist Eric Stewart and coauthors and suggested that "the five articles were likely fraudulent, several coauthors acted with negligence bordering on complicity after learning about the data irregularities, and the editors violated the ethical standards advanced by the Committee on Publication Ethics". Stewart was subsequently terminated from
Florida State University. • A 2022 article by Phillip Magness and Amelia Janaskie documented evidence of quotation editing and misrepresentation of original sources in an article about the economist
Ludwig von Mises by historian
Quinn Slobodian. • In 2020s,
David Barker published several articles critiquing claims that higher temperatures will lower the rate of economic growth. One of them documented that a paper by Riccardo Colacito, Bridget Hoffman, and Toan Phan claimed that higher temperatures decrease the rate of economic growth by regressing annual average state GDP growth on seasonal temperatures but did not test the significance of the sum of the seasonal coefficients (the cumulative effect over the year), which turned out to be insignificant. As of 2025, none of the commented-on authors of the critiqued articles have responded. ==Abstracting and indexing==