Department of Library and Infromation Science, Pondicherry University , Puducherry, India.
Department of International Business Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India.
Account Res. 2020 Oct;27(7):401-416. doi: 10.1080/08989621.2020.1754804. Epub 2020 Apr 18.
Academics are expected to publish their research work. Hence, during the past few years, the scientific community has witnessed an ever-increasing growth and output in scientific papers. However, a large number of authors have violated ethical norms of research leading to retractions of their research works as well. The article focuses on the scientific fraud emanating from China and India in Health Sciences for a period of three years i.e. 2015 to 2018. The present data were extracted from http://retractiondatabase.org/using a search filter term "Research Articles OR Articles in Press" on the subject category of Health Sciences (HSC). A total of 318 retracted papers were retrieved and the result of the study indicated that majority (268 items) of the retracted papers in Health Science originated from China, whereas just 50 retracted papers originated from India as on 21-02-2019. While analyzing the data, 26 redundant articles from China have been removed that received retraction notices. Further, the results of the study suggest that there are several factors associated with retraction of scientific papers, which include unreliable results, duplication of results, plagiarism, forged authorship, error in the text, error in data and so on.
学者需要发表其研究工作。因此，在过去的几年中，科学界见证了科学论文数量的不断增长和产出。然而，大量的作者违反了研究的道德规范，导致他们的研究工作被撤回。本文聚焦于 2015 年至 2018 年期间，来自中国和印度的健康科学领域的科学欺诈。目前的数据是从 http://retractiondatabase.org/ 中提取的，使用了“研究文章或即将出版的文章”这一搜索筛选词，并在健康科学（HSC）主题类别中进行了检索。共检索到 318 篇被撤回的论文，研究结果表明，在健康科学领域，大多数（268 篇）被撤回的论文来自中国，而截至 2019 年 2 月 21 日，来自印度的被撤回论文仅有 50 篇。在分析数据时，我们从中国删除了 26 篇收到撤回通知的重复文章。此外，研究结果表明，有几个因素与科学论文的撤回有关，包括不可靠的结果、结果重复、剽窃、伪造作者身份、文本错误、数据错误等。
