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Judging Evidence Quality
Erratum, corrigendum, and retraction
Also called erratum, corrigendum
An erratum corrects a publisher's error. A corrigendum corrects an author's error. A retraction withdraws the paper entirely, three different levels of correction, not interchangeable terms.
In context
You'll usually need this when precisely naming what kind of correction has been applied to a source.