Peterson Christopher J, Alexander Robert W, Yang Shengping, Nugent Kenneth
Department of Internal Medicine, Carilion Medical Center, Roanoke, Virginia, USA.
Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, USA.
Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2024 Mar 5;37(3):459-464. doi: 10.1080/08998280.2024.2313333. eCollection 2024.
The retraction of medical articles periodically occurs in most medical journals and can involve multiple article types. These retractions are beneficial if they remove flawed or fraudulent information from the medical literature. However, retractions may also decrease confidence in the medical literature and require significant amounts of time by editors.
One publisher (Hindawi) announced that it will retract over 1200 articles. Given this, the PubMed database was searched to identify retracted publications on or related to COVID-19, and articles retracted by journals sponsored by the publisher Hindawi were then identified.
These journals retracted 25 articles and, in most cases, did not provide an exact explanation about the particular problem(s) resulting in the retraction. The time to retraction was 468.7 ± 109.8 days (median = 446 days). These articles had 9.3 ± 9.9 citations.
Analysis of the titles and abstracts of the articles suggests that their removal from the medical literature would have limited effects on the near-term management decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, retraction of medical articles creates uncertainty in medical care and science and in the public regarding the validity of medical research and related publications and the level of professionalism of the individuals submitting these articles.
大多数医学期刊都会定期撤稿，撤稿涉及多种文章类型。如果撤稿能从医学文献中清除有缺陷或欺诈性的信息，那么这些撤稿是有益的。然而，撤稿也可能会降低人们对医学文献的信心，并且需要编辑花费大量时间。
一家出版商（Hindawi）宣布将撤回1200多篇文章。鉴于此，检索了PubMed数据库，以识别已发表的关于COVID-19或与之相关的撤稿文章，然后确定由Hindawi出版商赞助的期刊撤回的文章。
这些期刊撤回了25篇文章，在大多数情况下，没有对导致撤稿的具体问题给出确切解释。撤稿时间为468.7±109.8天（中位数=446天）。这些文章有9.3±9.9次引用。
对文章标题和摘要的分析表明，将这些文章从医学文献中删除对COVID-19大流行期间的近期管理决策影响有限。然而，医学文章的撤稿在医疗、科学以及公众对医学研究及相关出版物的有效性以及提交这些文章的个人的专业水平方面造成了不确定性。
