In 2025, René Aquarius, Floris Schoeters, Nick Wise, Alex Glynn and Guillaume Cabanac published an article describing stealth corrections, a phenomenon in which a publisher makes at least one post-publication change to a scientific article, without providing a correction note or any other indicator that the publication was temporarily or permanently altered.

Authors found 32 published articles that were affected by stealth corrections in addition to the 131 was had identified last year. An overview of all stealth corrections (#1-163) can be found in the online database, which also contains the links to all accompanying PubPeer posts for additional detail. MDPI was involved in 19 new stealth corrections. All of these involved moving articles out of a "special issue" and into a "section". Elsevier was involved in 3 new stealth corrections. All of them involved changes in content. ACM silently made multiple changes to the introduction from three conference proceedings written by the conference chair (#159-161). References were removed and in one case the text was heavily altered.

Source https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/02/guest-post-stealth-corrections-are.html

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