Researchers did an analysis of 2,047 papers listed as retracted by - TopicsExpress



          

Researchers did an analysis of 2,047 papers listed as retracted by PubMed, a free database of references and abstracts on biomedical and life sciences topics maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. The researchers, from the University of Washington, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York and science consulting firm MediCC!, went back as far as 1977. What they found was depressing: * 67.4% of retractions were attributable to misconduct * Of those, 43.4% were due to fraud or suspected fraud, with 14.2% attributable to duplicate publication and 9.8% due to plagiarism. * Only 21.3% of the retractions were based on error by the papers authors Heres the worst part, as PNAS writes: The percentage of scientific articles retracted because of fraud has increased more than 10-fold since 1975.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 06:31:54 +0000

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