ArticleJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA2015
Retraction policies of top scientific journals ranked by impact factor.
Article in Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Why include the humanities in medical studies?Internal and emergency medicine · 2019Article
- Retraction of papers authored by Yuhji Saitoh - Beyond the Fujii phenomenon.Indian journal of anaesthesia · 2019Article
- Effect of impact factor and discipline on journal data sharing policies.Accountability in research · 2019Article
- Is it time to revise the definition of research misconduct?Accountability in research · 2019Article
- Journals' instructions to authors: A cross-sectional study across scientific disciplines.PloS one · 2019Article
- Correcting the literature: Improvement trends seen in contents of retraction notices.BMC research notes · 2018Article
- Doing the Right Thing: A Qualitative Investigation of Retractions Due to Unintentional Error.Science and engineering ethics · 2018Article
- Exploring the characteristics, global distribution and reasons for retraction of published articles involving human research participants: a literature survey.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2018Article
- The visibility of scientific misconduct: A review of the literature on retracted journal articles.Current sociology. La Sociologie contemporaine · 2017Review
- Notices and Policies for Retractions, Expressions of Concern, Errata and Corrigenda: Their Importance, Content, and Context.Science and engineering ethics · 2017Article
- Data-Intensive Science and Research Integrity.Accountability in research · 2017Article
- Conflict of Interest and Funding Disclosure Policies of Environmental, Occupational, and Public Health Journals.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2017Article
- Honesty is the best policy: A brief overview of retraction notices.Nepal journal of epidemiology · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study gathered information about the retraction policies of the top 200 scientific journals, ranked by impact factor.
methodsEditors of the top 200 science journals for the year 2012 were contacted by email.
resultsOne hundred forty-seven journals (74%) responded to a request for information. Of these, 95 (65%) had a retraction policy. Of journals with a retraction policy, 94% had a policy that allows the editors to retract articles without authors' consent.
conclusionsThe majority of journals in this sample had a retraction policy, and almost all of them would retract an article without the authors' permission.
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