Propagation of Error : Approving Citations to Problematic Research ∗
Propagation of Error : Approving Citations to Problematic Research ∗
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错误的传播：批准对有问题的研究的引用*
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2018
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G. Sood
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Ken Cor;G. Sood
科学文章中的许多主张都基于其他人所做的研究。但当这些说法基于令人敬畏的研究时，科学文章可能会传播错误信息。为了揭示科学家基于有问题的研究提出主张的频率，我们利用了广泛公开的研究问题案例的数据。使用 3,000 多篇撤回文章和超过 74,000 次对这些文章的引用的数据，我们发现至少 31.2% 的撤回文章引用发生在撤回一年后。 91.4% 的撤稿后引用是认可的——请注意，与被引用的文章无关。我们使用《自然神经科学》上发表的一篇文章的数据来增强分析，该文章强调了著名期刊上发表的文章中存在严重的统计错误。数据表明，有问题的研究在问题公开后会被更频繁地引用。我们的结果对学术发现系统的设计和更广泛的科学实践具有影响。
Many claims in a scienti c article rest on research done by others. But when the claims are based on awed research, scienti c articles potentially spread misinformation. To shed light on how often scientists base their claims on problematic research, we exploit data on cases where problems with research are broadly publicized. Using data from over 3,000 retracted articles and over 74,000 citations to these articles, we nd that at least 31.2% of the citations to retracted articles happen a year after they have been retracted. And that 91.4% of the postretraction citations are approving—note no concern with the cited article. We augment the analysis with data from an article published in Nature Neuroscience highlighting a serious statistical error in articles published in prominent journals. Data suggest that problematic research was approvingly cited more frequently after the problem was publicized. Our results have implications for the design of scholarship discovery systems and scienti c practice more generally.