Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, ESIC Dental College, Kalburgi, Karnataka, INDIA.
Assistant Professor, Unit of Public Health Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Sciences, IMS, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA.
Indian J Med Ethics. 2022 Jul-Sep;VII(3):212-218. doi: 10.20529/IJME.2022.021. Epub 2022 Mar 15.
The objective of retracting flawed publications is to maintain the integrity of scientific literature. Retractions in the dental literature have been on the rise in recent years. Hence, we aimed to review retracted articles related to dentistry.
A search was conducted of the MEDLINE database for retracted articles in the dental literature published between April 1, 1993 and March 31, 2020. The retracted articles and the notices of retraction were reviewed, and the findings are presented.
During the selected period, 143 articles were retracted. Redundant publication (n=50, 35%) was the most common reason for retraction, followed by plagiarism (n=43, 30.1%) and data manipulation (n=42, 29.4%). Around 70.6% (n=101) of retracted articles were original articles. Eight (5.6%) of the articles were single authored. The retracted articles have been cited by about 1300 publications, after the date of publication of the retraction notice. The gap between publication and retraction was longer for funded articles than for non-funded articles, and for articles retracted for data manipulation than for articles retracted for other types of misconduct. Twenty-one journals and nine authors retracted two or more papers. The majority of authors of retracted articles (224, 37%) were from India.
Our study showed that the retraction of publications due to misconduct such as duplicate publication, plagiarism, data manipulation is a matter of concern and calls for strict measures to curb the menace of research misconduct.
撤回有缺陷的出版物的目的是维护科学文献的完整性。近年来，牙科文献中的撤回事件有所增加。因此，我们旨在回顾与牙科相关的撤回文章。
对 1993 年 4 月 1 日至 2020 年 3 月 31 日期间在牙科文献中发表的撤回文章进行了 MEDLINE 数据库检索。对撤回的文章和撤回通知进行了审查，并呈现了研究结果。
在所选择的时间段内，有 143 篇文章被撤回。重复发表（n=50，35%）是撤回的最常见原因，其次是剽窃（n=43，30.1%）和数据操纵（n=42，29.4%）。大约 70.6%（n=101）的撤回文章是原始文章。8（5.6%）篇文章是单作者。在发布撤回通知后，这些撤回文章已被约 1300 篇出版物引用。有资助的文章与无资助的文章相比，发表与撤回之间的时间间隔更长；因数据操纵而被撤回的文章比因其他类型的不当行为而被撤回的文章的时间间隔更长。21 种期刊和 9 位作者撤回了两篇或更多的论文。撤回文章的作者大多（224，37%）来自印度。
我们的研究表明，由于重复发表、剽窃、数据操纵等不当行为而撤回出版物是一个值得关注的问题，并呼吁采取严格措施遏制研究不当行为的威胁。
