Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications

被引：695

作者：

Fang, Ferric C. ^{[2
,3
]}

Steen, R. Grant ^{[4
]}

Casadevall, Arturo ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Yeshiva Univ Albert Einstein Coll Med, Dept Microbiol & Immunol, Bronx, NY 10461 USA

[2] Univ Washington, Sch Med, Dept Lab Med, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

[3] Univ Washington, Sch Med, Dept Microbiol, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

[4] MediCC Med Commun Consultants, Chapel Hill, NC 27517 USA

来源：

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | 2012年 / 109卷 / 42期

关键词：

bibliometric analysis; biomedical publishing; ethics; research misconduct; INDO-MEDITERRANEAN DIET; ARTICLE; SEE; PROTEIN; SCIENCE; JOURNALS;

D O I：

10.1073/pnas.1212247109

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

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.

引用

页码：17028 / 17033

页数：6

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