Emergency Department, Hôpital Lariboisière.
Faculté de Médecine, Université Diderot.
Eur J Emerg Med. 2019 Feb;26(1):19-23. doi: 10.1097/MEJ.0000000000000491.
The objective of this study was to characterize retracted publications in emergency medicine. We searched MEDLINE, Web of Science and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials to identify all retracted publications in the field of emergency medicine. We also searched an independent website that reports and archives retracted scientific publications. Two researchers independently screened titles, abstracts and full text of search results. Data from all included studies were then independently extracted. We identified 28 retraction notes. Eleven (39%) articles were published by authors from Europe. The oldest retracted article was published in 2001. The 28 retracted papers were published by 22 different journals. Two authors were named on multiples retractions. The median impact factor of journals was 1.03 (0.6-1.9). Almost all studies were available online [26/28 (93%)], but only 40% had watermarking on the article. The retraction notification was available for all articles. Three (11%) retraction notices did not clearly report the retraction reasons, and most retraction notices were issued by the editors [14 (56%)]. The most frequent retraction reasons were plagiarism [eight (29%)], duplicate publication [three (11%)] and overlap [two (2%)]. Retracted articles were cited on average 14 times. In most cases, the retraction cause did not invalidate the study's results [17 (60%)]. The most common reason for retraction was related to a misconduct by the authors. These results can question the necessity to normalize retraction procedures among the large number of biomedical editors and to educate future researchers on research integrity.
本研究旨在描述急诊医学领域已撤回的出版物。我们检索了 MEDLINE、Web of Science 和 Cochrane 对照试验中心注册库，以确定急诊医学领域所有已撤回的出版物。我们还检索了一个独立的网站，该网站报告和存档已撤回的科学出版物。两位研究人员独立筛选了检索结果的标题、摘要和全文。然后，独立提取所有纳入研究的数据。我们确定了 28 份撤回通知。11 篇（39%）文章的作者来自欧洲。最早撤回的文章发表于 2001 年。28 篇撤回论文发表在 22 种不同的期刊上。两位作者的名字出现在多次撤回中。期刊的中位影响因子为 1.03（0.6-1.9）。几乎所有的研究都可以在线获取[26/28（93%）]，但只有 40%的文章有水印。所有文章都可以获取撤回通知。有 3 篇（11%）撤回通知没有明确报告撤回原因，且大多数撤回通知由编辑发布[14（56%）]。最常见的撤回原因是抄袭[8（29%）]、重复发表[3（11%）]和重叠[2（2%）]。撤回文章的平均引用次数为 14 次。在大多数情况下，撤回原因并未使研究结果无效[17（60%）]。撤回的最常见原因与作者的不当行为有关。这些结果可能会引发人们对大量生物医学编辑是否需要规范撤回程序以及是否需要对未来的研究人员进行研究诚信教育的质疑。
