6
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: not found

      An Analysis of Recently Retracted Articles by Authors Affiliated with Hospitals in Mainland China

        1 , 2 , 3 , 4
      Journal of Scholarly Publishing
      University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisher
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          The aim of this study was to analyze the features of retracted articles by authors affiliated with hospitals in mainland China. We searched the PubMed, Web of Science, and Retraction Watch databases for retractions and identified the following characteristics of each retracted article: publisher, open access status, impact factor of the journal that retracted the article, any PubPeer comments recorded before the retraction, status of the hospital where the authors worked, and any response to the retraction from the authors. We found 521 retractions, primarily by authors at grade A, third-level hospitals located in a limited number of regions of mainland China, and found that the journals that had published and later retracted the articles tended to have a medium to high impact factor. The main reasons for retraction were data manipulation, fabrication, or fraud; errors made by the authors; or plagiarism. Few of the retracted publications had PubPeer comments before their retraction. This is the first report to focus on retracted research coming out of hospitals in mainland China. The large number of retractions for Chinese hospitals is worrying. The results suggest that some retractions were related to third parties that provided editorial and other services.

          Related collections

          Most cited references37

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: not found
          • Article: not found

          China's publication bazaar.

            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: not found
            • Article: not found

            China declared world’s largest producer of scientific articles

              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: found
              • Article: found
              Is Open Access

              The visibility of scientific misconduct: A review of the literature on retracted journal articles

              Retractions of scientific articles are becoming the most relevant institution for making sense of scientific misconduct. An increasing number of retracted articles, mainly attributed to misconduct, is currently providing a new empirical basis for research about scientific misconduct. This article reviews the relevant research literature from an interdisciplinary context. Furthermore, the results from these studies are contextualized sociologically by asking how scientific misconduct is made visible through retractions. This study treats retractions as an emerging institution that renders scientific misconduct visible, thus, following up on the sociology of deviance and its focus on visibility. The article shows that retractions, by highlighting individual cases of misconduct and general policies for preventing misconduct while obscuring the actors and processes through which retractions are effected, produce highly fragmented patterns of visibility. These patterns resemble the bifurcation in current justice systems.
                Bookmark

                Author and article information

                Contributors
                Journal
                Journal of Scholarly Publishing
                Journal of Scholarly Publishing
                University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
                1198-9742
                1710-1166
                January 2021
                January 2021
                : 52
                : 2
                : 107-122
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of the Library at the First Hospital of Jilin University and the Department of Preventive Medicine in the School of Public Health at Jilin University
                [2 ]Department of Preventive Medicine in the School of Public Health at Jilin University
                [3 ]Department of the Library at the First Hospital of Jilin University
                [4 ]Department of Scientific Research at the First Hospital of Jilin University
                Article
                10.3138/jsp.52.2.03
                a946c705-b3af-4815-98ed-3ce64876bb61
                © 2021
                History

                Comments

                Comment on this article