Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications
Authors: Fang, F. C. Steen, R. G. Casadevali, A. 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 … Read more
