Scientific Publications: Retracted Publications and Related Topics

Perspective: Research Misconduct: The Search for a Remedy: Kornfeld, Donald S. MD

Ethical Conduct in Chemical Research and Publishing: link to full text PDF

Ethics and scientific publication: The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive discussion of ethical problems encountered during the publication process. ... While it is always difficult to legislate appropriate standards of behavior, it was the intent and responsibility of the Federal Government to ensure that publicly funded research is above reproach.

Retractions in the Medical Literature: Who Is Responsible for Scientific Integrity?

An analysis of citations to retracted articles in the scientific literature. A Master’s Paper for the M.S. in L.S degree. April, 2005. "It is equally important that authors and editors check the reference lists in articles before publication. Not only do they need to check for misspellings and errors, but one of the references could be to a work proven to be invalid."

Visibility of retractions: a cross-sectional one-year study

Effects of article retraction on citation and practice in medicine.

Authors retract a decade-old, highly-cited cancer study, admitting sloppy mistakes in the data analysis.

Can Scientific Quality Be Quantified?

Ethical conundrums in research

Publication misconduct and plagiarism retractions: a systematic, retrospective study: PubMed abstraact

Publication misconduct and plagiarism retractions: a Latin American perspective

The codex of science: honesty, precision, and truth—and its violations

Retracted Science and the Retraction Index: Using a novel measure that we call the “retraction index,” we found that the frequency of retraction varies among journals and shows a strong correlation with the journal impact factor.

Publication Ethics: A Case Series with Recommendations According to Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Falsified papers in high-impact journals were slow to retract and indistinguishable from nonfraudulent papers

Retractions: Guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics: Retraction is a mechanism for correcting the literature and alerting readers to publications that contain such seriously flawed or erroneous data that their findings and conclusions cannot be relied upon. Unreliable data may result from honest error or from research misconduct.

Scientific retractions and corrections related to misconduct findings

Why and how do journals retract articles? An analysis of Medline retractions 1988–2008

Retractions in the scientific literature: is the incidence of research fraud increasing?

Phenomena of Retraction: Reasons for Retraction and citations to the Publications

The impact of fraudulent research on the scientific literature. The Stephen E. Breuning case (click to download full text pdf)

A visual analytic study of retracted articles in scientific literature

The persistence of error: a study of retracted articles on the Internet and in personal libraries*

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): Objectives and achievements 1997-2012.

Academic Medical Libraries' Policies and Procedures for Notifying Library Users of Retracted Scientific Publications: PubMed abstract

Science publishing: The trouble with retractions

A Comprehensive Survey of Retracted Articles from the Scholarly Literature

Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications. A detailed review of all 2,047 biomedical and life-science research articles indexed by PubMed as retracted on May 3, 2012 revealed that only 21.3% of retractions were attributable to error. In contrast, 67.4% of retractions were attributable to misconduct, including fraud or suspected fraud (43.4%), duplicate publication (14.2%), and plagiarism (9.8%).

Whither research integrity? Plagiarism, self-plagiarism and coercive citation in an age of research assessment

Governing knowledge in the scientific community: Exploring the role of retractions in biomedicine

Why has the committee on publication ethics developed guidelines for cooperation between journals and research institutions? The primary role of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) is to provide advice and guidance to journal editors and publishers on ethical issues.

Editors have a responsibility to retract seriously flawed articles from their journals. However, there appears to be little consistency in journals' policies or procedures for this. Our findings have been used as the basis for guidelines developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics.

WHO Wants To Crack Down On Skewed Research That Hides Drug Risks

Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent

How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed

Fake peer review hits RSC journals

Why a major study on the Mediterranean Diet was just retracted and replaced

A Major Mediterranean Diet Study Was Retracted. But Do Docs Still Recommend It?

OMICS, Publisher of Fake Journals, Makes Cosmetic Changes to Evade Detection

WHEN THE SCIENCE IS WRONG: NO LINK BETWEEN THE MMR VACCINE AND AUTISM