Bordino Marco, Ravizzotti Elisa, Vercelli Stefano
Private Practice, Vercelli, Italy.
Department of Neurorehabilitation Sciences, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
Arch Physiother. 2020 Nov 30;10(1):21. doi: 10.1186/s40945-020-00092-w.
The volume of withdrawn publications in scholarly disciplines has grown steadily, but there is little awareness about this issue in rehabilitation. The aim of this study was to analyze the extent of retracted articles pertaining to rehabilitation.
Retracted articles were searched in 4 different bibliographic databases from their inception to April 2020: PubMed, Web of Science, WikiLetters and Retraction Watch. Three independent reviewers assessed the relevance of the retrieved articles to the rehabilitation area.
Of 280 rehabilitation-related publications retracted between 1984 and 2020, 83 (29.6%) were published in 55 full open access journals and 197 (70.4%) were published in 147 traditional, non-open access or hybrid journals. In the last 10 years (2009-2018) there was a significant steady increase in both the total number of retractions (p < 0.005; r = 0.856; R = 0.733) and retraction rate per year (p < 0.05; r = 0.751; R = 0.564). However, the number of retractions represents a very small percentage (~ 0.1%) of the overall volume of publications in rehabilitation.
Our data indicate that the number of retracted articles in rehabilitation is increasing, although the phenomenon is still limited. However, the true prevalence of misconduct may go unnoticed due to the large number of low-quality journals not indexed in the searched databases. Physiotherapists should be aware of the danger of misleading information originating from withdrawn publications.
学术学科中撤回出版物的数量一直在稳步增长，但康复领域对这一问题的认识却很少。本研究的目的是分析与康复相关的撤稿文章的情况。
在4个不同的文献数据库中检索自创建至2020年4月的撤稿文章：PubMed、科学引文索引、WikiLetters和撤稿观察网。三名独立评审员评估检索到的文章与康复领域的相关性。
在1984年至2020年间撤回的280篇与康复相关的出版物中，83篇（29.6%）发表在55种完全开放获取期刊上，197篇（70.4%）发表在147种传统的、非开放获取或混合型期刊上。在过去10年（2009 - 2018年），撤稿总数（p < 0.005；r = 0.856；R = 0.733）和每年的撤稿率（p < 0.05；r = 0.751；R = 0.564）均显著稳步上升。然而，撤稿数量占康复领域出版物总量的比例非常小（约0.1%）。
我们的数据表明，康复领域撤稿文章的数量在增加，尽管这一现象仍然有限。然而，由于搜索数据库中未索引的大量低质量期刊，不当行为的真实发生率可能未被注意到。物理治疗师应意识到来自撤回出版物的误导性信息的危险。
