Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications
Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.1212247109
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发表时间：
2012-10-16
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Casadevall, Arturo
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作者：
Fang, Ferric C.;Steen, R. Grant;Casadevall, Arturo
对PubMed索引的2,047篇生物医学和生命科学研究文章的详细审查显示，在2012年5月3日撤回的文章中，只有21.3%的撤回可归因于错误。相比之下，67.4%的撤稿归因于不当行为，包括欺诈或涉嫌欺诈（43.4%），重复出版（14.2%）和剽窃（9.8%）。不完整、无信息或误导性的撤回声明导致以前低估了欺诈在持续的撤回流行病中的作用。自1975年以来，因欺诈而撤回的科学文章的比例增加了近10倍。收缩表现出独特的时间和地理模式，可能揭示潜在的原因。
A detailed review of all 2,047 biomedical and life-science research articles indexed by PubMed as retracted on May 3, 2012 revealed that only 21.3% of retractions were attributable to error. In contrast, 67.4% of retractions were attributable to misconduct, including fraud or suspected fraud (43.4%), duplicate publication (14.2%), and plagiarism (9.8%). Incomplete, uninformative or misleading retraction announcements have led to a previous underestimation of the role of fraud in the ongoing retraction epidemic. The percentage of scientific articles retracted because of fraud has increased similar to 10-fold since 1975. Retractions exhibit distinctive temporal and geographic patterns that may reveal underlying causes.