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What time-lag for a retraction search on PubMed?
BACKGROUND: To investigate fraud and errors, scientists have studied cohorts of retraction notices. These researches have been performed using a PubMed search on publication type “retraction of publication” which retrieves the notices of the retractions. We assessed the stability of the indexation o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4105554/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24965905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-395 |
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author | Decullier, Evelyne Huot, Laure Maisonneuve, Hervé |
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description | BACKGROUND: To investigate fraud and errors, scientists have studied cohorts of retraction notices. These researches have been performed using a PubMed search on publication type “retraction of publication” which retrieves the notices of the retractions. We assessed the stability of the indexation of retraction notices over a 15-month period and what was the time-lag to get stability. FINDINGS: A search on notices of retraction issued in 2008 was repeated every 3 months during 15 months from February 2011. The first search resulted in 237 notices of retraction. Throughout the study period, 14 discrepancies with the initial search were observed (6%). We found that the number of retraction notices became stable 35 months after the retraction. CONCLUSIONS: The time-lag observed in this study has to be taken into account when performing a PubMed search. |
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spelling | pubmed-41055542014-07-23 What time-lag for a retraction search on PubMed? Decullier, Evelyne Huot, Laure Maisonneuve, Hervé BMC Res Notes Short Report BACKGROUND: To investigate fraud and errors, scientists have studied cohorts of retraction notices. These researches have been performed using a PubMed search on publication type “retraction of publication” which retrieves the notices of the retractions. We assessed the stability of the indexation of retraction notices over a 15-month period and what was the time-lag to get stability. FINDINGS: A search on notices of retraction issued in 2008 was repeated every 3 months during 15 months from February 2011. The first search resulted in 237 notices of retraction. Throughout the study period, 14 discrepancies with the initial search were observed (6%). We found that the number of retraction notices became stable 35 months after the retraction. CONCLUSIONS: The time-lag observed in this study has to be taken into account when performing a PubMed search. BioMed Central 2014-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4105554/ /pubmed/24965905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-395 Text en Copyright © 2014 Decullier et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Short Report Decullier, Evelyne Huot, Laure Maisonneuve, Hervé What time-lag for a retraction search on PubMed? |
title | What time-lag for a retraction search on PubMed? |
title_full | What time-lag for a retraction search on PubMed? |
title_fullStr | What time-lag for a retraction search on PubMed? |
title_full_unstemmed | What time-lag for a retraction search on PubMed? |
title_short | What time-lag for a retraction search on PubMed? |
title_sort | what time-lag for a retraction search on pubmed? |
topic | Short Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4105554/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24965905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-395 |
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