Elango Bakthavachalam
Library, IFET College of Engineering, Villupuram, 605 108 Tamilnadu India.
Scientometrics. 2021;126(5):3965-3981. doi: 10.1007/s11192-021-03895-1. Epub 2021 Mar 7.
The aim of the present study is to identify retracted articles in the biomedical literature (co) authored by Indian authors and to examine the features of retracted articles. The PubMed database was searched to find the retracted articles in order to reach the goal. The search yielded 508 records and retrieved for the detailed analysis of: authorships and collaboration type, funding information, who retracts? journals and impact factors, and reasons for retraction. The results show that most of the biomedical articles retracted were published after 2010 and common reasons are plagiarism and fake data for retraction. More than half of the retracted articles were co-authored within the institutions and there is no repeat offender. 25% of retracted articles were published in the top 15 journals and 33% were published in the non-impact factor journals. Average time from publication to retraction is calculated to 2.86 years and retractions due to fake data takes longest period among the reasons. Majority of the funded research was retracted due to fake data whereas it is plagiarism for non-funded.
本研究的目的是识别由印度作者共同撰写的生物医学文献中的撤稿文章，并研究撤稿文章的特征。为实现这一目标，对PubMed数据库进行了检索以查找撤稿文章。检索结果有508条记录，并对以下内容进行了详细分析：作者身份与合作类型、资助信息、撤稿者、期刊与影响因子以及撤稿原因。结果表明，大多数被撤稿的生物医学文章是2010年以后发表的，撤稿的常见原因是抄袭和虚假数据。超过一半的撤稿文章是机构内部共同撰写的，且没有重复违规者。25%的撤稿文章发表在排名前15的期刊上，33%发表在无影响因子的期刊上。从发表到撤稿的平均时间计算为2.86年，因虚假数据导致的撤稿在所有原因中耗时最长。大多数受资助研究因虚假数据被撤稿，而未受资助的则是因为抄袭。
