J Med Libr Assoc. 2022 Jan 1;110(1):97-102. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2022.1269.
This study examines the extent to which retracted articles pertaining to COVID-19 have been shared via social and mass media based on altmetric scores.
Seventy-one retracted articles related to COVID-19 were identified from relevant databases, of which thirty-nine had an Altmetric Attention Score obtained using the Altmetrics Bookmarklet. Data extracted from the articles include overall attention score and demographics of sharers (e.g., geographic location, professional affiliation).
Retracted articles related to COVID-19 were shared tens of thousands of times to an audience of potentially hundreds of millions of readers and followers. Twitter was the largest medium for sharing these articles, and the United States was the country with the most sharers. While general members of the public were the largest proportion of sharers, researchers and professionals were not immune to sharing these articles on social media and on websites, blogs, or news media.
These findings have potential implications for better understanding the spread of misleading or false information perpetuated in retracted scholarly publications. They emphasize the importance of quality peer review and research ethics among journals and responsibility among individuals who wish to share research findings.
本研究考察了根据 altmetric 分数，与 COVID-19 相关的被撤回文章在社交媒体和大众媒体上的传播程度。
从相关数据库中确定了 71 篇与 COVID-19 相关的被撤回文章，其中 39 篇使用 Altmetrics Bookmarklet 获得了 Altmetric 关注度得分。从文章中提取的数据包括总体关注度得分和分享者的人口统计学信息（例如地理位置、专业隶属关系）。
与 COVID-19 相关的被撤回文章被分享了数万次，受众可能达数亿读者和关注者。Twitter 是分享这些文章的最大平台，美国是分享者最多的国家。虽然普通公众是最大的分享者群体，但研究人员和专业人员也无法避免在社交媒体以及网站、博客或新闻媒体上分享这些文章。
这些发现可能对更好地理解在撤回的学术出版物中传播的误导性或虚假信息有一定的启示作用。它们强调了期刊之间进行高质量同行评审和研究伦理的重要性，以及希望分享研究成果的个人的责任。
