{"id":141942,"date":"2012-10-02T18:51:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T18:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging2.simonw59.sg-host.com\/misconduct-accounts-for-the-majority-of-retracted-scientific-publications\/"},"modified":"2022-05-26T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T13:44:04","slug":"misconduct-accounts-for-the-majority-of-retracted-scientific-publications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/force11.org\/post\/misconduct-accounts-for-the-majority-of-retracted-scientific-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ct_body\">\n<p>Authors: Fang, F. C.<br \/>\n\tSteen, R. G.<br \/>\n\tCasadevali, A.<\/p>\n<p>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%). Incomplete, uninformative or misleading retraction announcements have led to a previous underestimation of the role of fraud in the ongoing retraction epidemic. The percentage of scientific articles retracted because of fraud has increased &sim;10-fold since 1975. Retractions exhibit distinctive temporal and geographic patterns that may reveal underlying causes.<\/p>\n<p>Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 2012<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"ct_meta\"><span class=\"ct_label\">Archive:<\/span>&nbsp;<a class=\"ct_archive\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.force11.net\/node\/6419\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/archive.force11.net\/node\/6419<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230; <a title=\"Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/force11.org\/post\/misconduct-accounts-for-the-majority-of-retracted-scientific-publications\/\" aria-label=\"More on Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"force11":[],"blog_series":[],"working_group":[],"class_list":["post-141942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Maryann Martone","author_link":"\/members\/maryann-martone"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/force11.org\/category\/news\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 13 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 2 Oct 2012","modified":"Updated on 26 May 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 2 Oct 2012 18:51","modified":"Updated on 26 May 2022 13:44"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141942"},{"taxonomy":"force11","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/force11?post=141942"},{"taxonomy":"blog_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_series?post=141942"},{"taxonomy":"working_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/working_group?post=141942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}