---
title: "Is Crossref Retraction Watch down? Crossref Retraction Watch status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/crossref/retraction-watch"
description: "Live Crossref Retraction Watch status, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is Crossref Retraction Watch down?

**Answer:** No, Crossref Retraction Watch is not down. All Crossref Retraction Watch systems are operational.

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T09:50:02Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Part of: [Crossref](/status/crossref.md) / Metadata files
- Official status page: https://status.crossref.org
- About: The Retraction Watch data file, updated daily, available from the Labs API for now (and since Sept 2023) at https://api.labs.crossref.org/data/retractionwatch

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Incidents affecting Retraction Watch

No recent incidents.

## Links

- HTML page: /status/crossref/retraction-watch
- Service: /status/crossref.md