La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
School of Health Science, University of Tasmania, Sydney, Australia.
Int J Nurs Stud. 2018 May;81:8-13. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2018.01.013. Epub 2018 Jan 31.
Rates of manuscript retraction in academic journals are increasing. Papers are retracted because of scientific misconduct or serious error. To date there have been no studies that have examined rates of retraction in nursing and midwifery journals.
A systematic review of Journal Citation Report listed nursing science journals.
The Medline database was searched systematically from January 1980 through July 2017, and www.retractionwatch.com was manually searched for relevant studies that met the inclusion criteria.
Two researchers undertook title and abstract and full text screening. Data were extracted on the country of the corresponding author, journal title, impact factor, study design, year of retraction, number of citations after retraction, and reason for retraction. Journals retraction index was also calculated.
Twenty-nine retracted papers published in nursing science journals were identified, the first in 2007. This represents 0.029% of all papers published in these journals since 2007. We observed a significant increase in the retraction rate of 0.44 per 10,000 publications per year (95% CI; 0.03-0.84, p = .037). There was a negative association between a journal's retraction index and impact factor with a significant reduction in retraction index of -0.57 for a one-point increase in impact factor (95% CI; -1.05 to -0.09, p = .022). Duplicate publication was the most common reason for retraction (n = 18, 58%). The mean number of citations manuscripts received after retraction was seven, the highest was 52. Most (n = 27, 93.1%) of the retracted papers are still available online (with a watermark indicating they are retracted).
Compared to more established academic disciplines, rates of retraction in nursing and midwifery are low. Findings suggest that unsound research is not being identified and that the checks and balances incumbent in the scientific method are not working. In a clinical discipline, this is concerning and may indicate that research that should have been removed from the evidence base continues to influence nursing and midwifery care.
学术期刊的论文撤稿率正在上升。论文因科学不端行为或严重错误而被撤稿。迄今为止，尚无研究检查护理和助产学期刊的撤稿率。
对被列入期刊引文报告的护理科学期刊进行系统综述。
系统检索了 1980 年 1 月至 2017 年 7 月的 Medline 数据库，并在 www.retractionwatch.com 上手动搜索符合纳入标准的相关研究。
两名研究人员进行了标题和摘要以及全文筛选。提取了通讯作者所在国家/地区、期刊标题、影响因子、研究设计、撤稿年份、撤稿后引用次数以及撤稿原因等数据。还计算了期刊撤稿指数。
共确定了 29 篇发表在护理科学期刊上的撤稿论文，第一篇发表于 2007 年。这代表自 2007 年以来这些期刊上发表的所有论文的 0.029%。我们观察到撤稿率显著增加，每年每 10,000 篇出版物增加 0.44 篇（95%CI；0.03-0.84，p=0.037）。期刊撤稿指数与影响因子呈负相关，影响因子每增加 1 分，撤稿指数显著降低 0.57（95%CI；-1.05 至-0.09，p=0.022）。重复发表是撤稿的最常见原因（n=18，58%）。撤稿后手稿收到的平均引用次数为 7 次，最高为 52 次。大多数（n=27，93.1%）撤稿论文仍可在线获取（带有表明已撤稿的水印）。
与更成熟的学术学科相比，护理和助产学的撤稿率较低。研究结果表明，有缺陷的研究没有被发现，科学方法中固有的制衡作用没有发挥作用。在临床学科中，这令人担忧，可能表明本应从证据基础中删除的研究仍在影响护理和助产学护理。
