An observation framework for retracted publications in multiple dimensions
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An observation framework for retracted publications in multiple dimensions Lingzi Feng1,2 · Junpeng Yuan1,2 · Liying Yang1,2 Received: 15 December 2019 © Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2020
Abstract To describe the impact of the retracted publications on the scientific community more comprehensively, this paper introduces the impact of retracted publications on technology. It establishes a multi-dimensional observation framework for retracted publications from four dimensions, including scientific impact, technological impact, funding impact and Altmetric impact, and proposes the use of a novel multidimensional bubble diagram to illustrate the multidimensional data. This study also proposes a two-dimensional classification of retraction reasons to help sort retracted papers, the results of which show the correlated features of those papers. This paper takes all the retracted publications from two top biomedical journals as a sample, uses the observation framework to analyze them and describes the impact of these papers from multiple dimensions. The results show that compared with one-dimensional analysis, this observation framework reveals the impact characteristics of retracted publications more comprehensively. Keywords Retracted publications · Retracted articles · Impact of retracted articles · Patent citation · Research integrity · Scientific misconduct · Honest error
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s1119 2-020-03702-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Junpeng Yuan [email protected] Lingzi Feng [email protected] Liying Yang [email protected] 1
National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Department of Library, Information and Archives Management, School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Introduction Retracted publications are papers that have been reported by members of the scientific community, self-reported by authors, or investigated and then found to have problems such as scientific misconduct or scientific errors; thus, these papers are retracted by the journals through a formal retraction notice due to their negative impact on the development of science (Fan and Zhang 2014). There has been abundant research on the phenomenon of retractions. Some scholars (Zhang et al. 2018) classify the existing research into three categories: the features of retracted papers, the impact of retracted papers and retraction reasons. The feature analysis mainly addresses the time (publication time or retraction time), authors’ geographical distribution (country or region), journal, involved research entity (author or institute) and retraction time lag. Studies on impact are mainly about description of cited status (number of citations, changes and attitudes of citers, etc.), citing reasons and influence factors, additional impacts and countermeasures. Research on thes
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