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Bibliometric and Altmetric Analysis of Retracted Articles on COVID-19
BACKGROUND: With greater use of social media platforms for promotions of research articles, retracted articles tend to receive approximately the same attention. We systematically analyzed retracted articles from retractionwatch.com to look at the Altmetric Attention Scores (AAS) garnered over a peri...
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The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8845104/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35166080 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2022.37.e44 |
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author | Khan, Hiba Gupta, Prakash Zimba, Olena Gupta, Latika |
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description | BACKGROUND: With greater use of social media platforms for promotions of research articles, retracted articles tend to receive approximately the same attention. We systematically analyzed retracted articles from retractionwatch.com to look at the Altmetric Attention Scores (AAS) garnered over a period of time in order to highlight the role of social media and other platforms in advertising retracted articles and its effect on the spread of misinformation. METHODS: Retractionwatch.com was searched for coronavirus disease 2019 related retracted papers on November 6th, 2021. Articles were excluded based on lack of digital object identifier (DOI), if they were preprint articles, absent AAS, and incomplete AAS of pre retraction, post retraction, or both scores. RESULTS: A total of 196 articles were found on the Retraction Watch website of which 189 were retracted papers and 7 were expression of concern (EOC). We then identified 175 articles after excluding those that did not have a DOI and 30 preprint articles were also excluded giving 145 articles. Further exclusion of articles with absent AAS and incomplete AAS resulted in a total of 22 articles. CONCLUSION: Retracted articles receive significant online attention. Twitter and Mendeley were the most popular medium for publicizing retracted articles, therefore more focus should be given by journals and their Twitter accounts to discredit all their retracted articles. Preprints should be reconsidered as a whole by journals due to the huge risk they carry in disseminating false information. |
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spelling | pubmed-88451042022-02-24 Bibliometric and Altmetric Analysis of Retracted Articles on COVID-19 Khan, Hiba Gupta, Prakash Zimba, Olena Gupta, Latika J Korean Med Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: With greater use of social media platforms for promotions of research articles, retracted articles tend to receive approximately the same attention. We systematically analyzed retracted articles from retractionwatch.com to look at the Altmetric Attention Scores (AAS) garnered over a period of time in order to highlight the role of social media and other platforms in advertising retracted articles and its effect on the spread of misinformation. METHODS: Retractionwatch.com was searched for coronavirus disease 2019 related retracted papers on November 6th, 2021. Articles were excluded based on lack of digital object identifier (DOI), if they were preprint articles, absent AAS, and incomplete AAS of pre retraction, post retraction, or both scores. RESULTS: A total of 196 articles were found on the Retraction Watch website of which 189 were retracted papers and 7 were expression of concern (EOC). We then identified 175 articles after excluding those that did not have a DOI and 30 preprint articles were also excluded giving 145 articles. Further exclusion of articles with absent AAS and incomplete AAS resulted in a total of 22 articles. CONCLUSION: Retracted articles receive significant online attention. Twitter and Mendeley were the most popular medium for publicizing retracted articles, therefore more focus should be given by journals and their Twitter accounts to discredit all their retracted articles. Preprints should be reconsidered as a whole by journals due to the huge risk they carry in disseminating false information. The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2022-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8845104/ /pubmed/35166080 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2022.37.e44 Text en © 2022 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Khan, Hiba Gupta, Prakash Zimba, Olena Gupta, Latika Bibliometric and Altmetric Analysis of Retracted Articles on COVID-19 |
title | Bibliometric and Altmetric Analysis of Retracted Articles on COVID-19 |
title_full | Bibliometric and Altmetric Analysis of Retracted Articles on COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Bibliometric and Altmetric Analysis of Retracted Articles on COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Bibliometric and Altmetric Analysis of Retracted Articles on COVID-19 |
title_short | Bibliometric and Altmetric Analysis of Retracted Articles on COVID-19 |
title_sort | bibliometric and altmetric analysis of retracted articles on covid-19 |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8845104/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35166080 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2022.37.e44 |
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