---
title: "Read one Retraction Watch record"
method: GET
path: "/v1/sources/retraction-watch/records/{recordId}"
tags: ["Retraction Watch"]
---

# Read one Retraction Watch record

`GET /v1/sources/retraction-watch/records/{recordId}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.assyro.com`
- URL: `https://api.assyro.com/v1/sources/retraction-watch/records/{recordId}`
- Auth: none declared

Read one Retraction Watch notice by its record id (the id lookup_retraction gives, e.g. "74008"): the paper's title, journal, publisher and authors, its publication date, DOI and PMID, the notice's nature (retraction, correction, expression of concern, reinstatement), date, DOI and PMID, Retraction Watch's reasons, article type, whether the notice is paywalled, notes and Retraction Watch's pages about it.

## Path parameters

- `recordId` string, required

## Response `200`

The record and its text.

- ReadResponse
  - `version` unknown, required
  - `source` SourceRef, required
    - `id` string, required
    - `label` string, required
    - `authority` string, required
  - `record` Record, required
    - `id` string, required: The source's own identifier for the record.
    - `title` string, required
    - `url` string, required: The record's page at the source, to verify it.
    - `authority` string, required: Who published the record.
    - `snippet` string, nullable, required: The part of the record that matched; null where the licence allows only a link.
    - `publishedDate` string, nullable, required
    - `version` string, nullable, required: The edition or revision read.
    - `fields` object, nullable, required: The source's own fields; null where the licence allows only a link.
    - `asOf` string, nullable, required: The day Assyro's copy of the source was read (YYYY-MM-DD).
    - `attribution` string: The attribution the source's licence requires, on sources that require one.
  - `text` string, nullable, required
  - `truncated` boolean, required

## Other responses

- `400`: The request is not valid: an unknown parameter or an argument the source refuses.
- `404`: No such source or record.
- `429`: Rate limited; retry after the Retry-After header.
- `503`: The source cannot answer from Assyro's copy right now.

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