Assessment of retracted papers, and their retraction notices, from a cancer journal associated with “paper mills”
et | 07 juin 2023
À propos de cet article
Article Category: Research Note
Publié en ligne: 07 juin 2023
Pages: 118 - 125
Reçu: 02 févr. 2023
Accepté: 29 mars 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2023-0009
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© 2023 Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva et al., published by Sciendo
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Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals retractions (until July 10, 2022), including reason(s) for retraction and country of authors, according to Retraction Watch (2022). In addition, retraction notices were consulted to appreciate if retractions were induced by the authors, or by the editor/publisher. Finally, the number of affiliations associated with a hospital was noted.
| DOI | Reason(s) for retraction |
Explicit author-induced? | # Hospital affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irreproducible results | Yes | 4/5 | |
| Concerns/issues about data/results; paper mill |
Yes | 4/5 | |
| Concerns/issues about data/image; investigations/objection by third party | No | 1/1 | |
| Concerns/issues about data/image; investigations/objection by third party; error in text | No | 1/1 | |
| Image falsification/fabrication; miscommunication by third party; original data not provided; paper mill |
No | 4/4 | |
| Concerns/issues about third party involvement; image duplication; data falsification/fabrication; miscommunication by third party | No | 4/6 | |
| Breach of policy by author; original data not provided; paper mill | No | 1/1 | |
| Data/text duplication; paper mill |
No | 5/9 | |
| Data/text duplication; paper mill |
No | 1/1 | |
| Data/text duplication; paper mill |
No | 1/2 | |
| Data/text duplication; paper mill |
No | 2/3 | |
| Breach of policy by author; paper mill | No | 1/1 | |
| Misconduct by third party; paper mill | Yes | 2/2 | |
| Unreliable results; paper mill | No | 1/1 | |
| Breach of policy by author; paper mill | No | 1/1 | |
| Breach of policy by author; paper mill | No | 2/2 | |
| Paper mill | No | 2/2 | |
| Paper mill | No | 5/5 | |
| Paper mill | No | 2/4 | |
| Breach of policy by author; paper mill | No | 2/4 | |
| Concerns/issues about data/image; original data not provided; paper mill | No | 3/3 | |
| Concerns/issues about data/image; original data not provided; paper mill | No | 2/3 | |
| Concerns/issues about authorship/data/image/results/third party involvement; paper mill |
No | 1/2 |
| Original DOI | Retraction notice DOI | Web of Science Core Collection | Scopus | Google Scholar | Retraction date | Cited after retraction | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web of Science Core Collection | Scopus | Google Scholar | ||||||
| 22 | 18 | 25 | 6 Dec 2021 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 13 | 10 | 15 | 1 Dec 2017 | 6 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 11 | 8 | 12 | 12 Nov 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 19 | 18 | 31 | 6 Dec 2021 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 9 | 8 | 9 | 1 Dec 2017 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||
| 9 | 6 | 10 | 12 Nov 2021 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 10 | 9 | 14 | 10 May 2022 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 36 | 30 | 43 | 6 Sep 2021 | 8 | 7 | 11 | ||
| 22 | 22 | 27 | 23 Jul 2021 | 2 | 4 | 4 | ||
| 28 | 30 | 30 | 6 Dec 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 Dec 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 19 | 16 | 28 | 23 Jul 2021 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||
| 7 | 6 | 11 | 6 Sep 2021 | 3 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 14 | 10 | 15 | 6 Sep 2021 | 3 | 3 | 5 | ||
| 8 | 7 | 12 | 13 Oct 2021 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| 15 | 15 | 22 | 13 Oct 2021 | 6 | 7 | 7 | ||
| 5 | 4 | 6 | 13 Oct 2021 | 2 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 16 | 17 | 23 | 6 Sep 2021 | 4 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 3 | 13 Oct 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 2 | 2 | 3 | 13 Oct 2021 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| 10 | 8 | 16 | 12 Nov 2021 | 3 | 3 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 5 | 6 | 13 Oct 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 Oct 2020 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||