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What Studies of Retractions Tell Us

    Authors: Adam Marcus1, Ivan Oransky1,2,*
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    Affiliations: 1: Retraction Watch, New York, NY 10036; 2: New York University, New York, NY 10036
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    • Published 15 December 2014
    • *Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected].
    • ©2014 Author(s). Published by the American Society for Microbiology.
    Source: J. Microbiol. Biol. Educ. December 2014 vol. 15 no. 2 151-154. doi:10.1128/jmbe.v15i2.855
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    Abstract:

    The retraction is receiving a growing amount of attention as an important event in scientific and scholarly publishing. Not only are some journals becoming increasingly open in their handling of the articles they withdraw—allowing researchers to gain important insights into the work of their colleagues—but scholars, too, have greater access to the reasons for retractions, information that is dramatically reshaping our understanding of such events. As this article will demonstrate, recent research has inverted the accepted lore about why retractions happen and their impact.

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Abstract:

The retraction is receiving a growing amount of attention as an important event in scientific and scholarly publishing. Not only are some journals becoming increasingly open in their handling of the articles they withdraw—allowing researchers to gain important insights into the work of their colleagues—but scholars, too, have greater access to the reasons for retractions, information that is dramatically reshaping our understanding of such events. As this article will demonstrate, recent research has inverted the accepted lore about why retractions happen and their impact.

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  • Published 15 December 2014
  • *Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected].
  • ©2014 Author(s). Published by the American Society for Microbiology.

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