Analysis of retracted articles in the surgical literature.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:Retractions of scientific articles represent attempts to correct the literature. Our goal was to examine retracted surgical papers. METHODS:NCBI PubMed database was queried using the search terms "surgery," "surg," or "surgical" and "retracted" or "retraction." Article details were recorded. RESULTS:There were 184 retracted surgical articles identified from 1991 through 2015. Average retraction time was 3.6 years. General (26%), Cardiac (22%), and Orthopedic (10%) surgery were most common. Reasons for retraction were duplication (35.3%), Institutional Review Board violations (18.5%), falsified data (14.7%), data errors (9.8%), author dispute (8.2%), plagiarism (7.6%), copyright violations (2.2%), financial disclosure violations (0.5%), and consent (0.5%). No reason for retraction was given in 8.7% of cases. Median IF was higher for administrative than content-related retraction reasons (3.0 vs. 2.0, P < 0.01). A paywall, requiring a subscription to read, restricted access to 23.4% of retraction notices. CONCLUSIONS:Article retractions occur across all fields of surgery for various reasons, both administrative and content-related. The majority of surgical retraction notices have a reason for retraction listed and do not require payment to read.

journal_name

Am J Surg

authors

King EG,Oransky I,Sachs TE,Farber A,Flynn DB,Abritis A,Kalish JA,Siracuse JJ

doi

10.1016/j.amjsurg.2017.11.033

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-11-01 00:00:00

pages

851-855

issue

5

eissn

0002-9610

issn

1879-1883

pii

S0002-9610(17)31228-X

journal_volume

216

pub_type

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