ArticleScience and engineering ethics2016
Plagiarism Allegations Account for Most Retractions in Major Latin American/Caribbean Databases.
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14 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Research integrity guidelines in the academic environment: The context of Brazilian institutions with retracted publications in health and life sciences.Frontiers in research metrics and analytics · 2022Article
- Estimating the prevalence of text overlap in biomedical conference abstracts.Research integrity and peer review · 2021Article
- Research ethics: a profile of retractions from world class universities.Scientometrics · 2021Article
- Similarity and Plagiarism in Scholarly Journal Submissions: Bringing Clarity to the Concept for Authors, Reviewers and Editors.Journal of Korean medical science · 2020Article
- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Plagiarism as Reported by Participants Completing the AuthorAID MOOC on Research Writing.Science and engineering ethics · 2020Article
- Retracted Publications in the Biomedical Literature from Open Access Journals.Science and engineering ethics · 2019Article
- Lack of Improvement in Scientific Integrity: An Analysis of WoS Retractions by Chinese Researchers (1997-2016).Science and engineering ethics · 2018Article
- Plagiarism, Cheating and Research Integrity: Case Studies from a Masters Program in Peru.Science and engineering ethics · 2017Article
- Plagiarism in the Context of Education and Evolving Detection Strategies.Journal of Korean medical science · 2017Review
- A survey of retracted articles in dentistry.BMC research notes · 2017Article
- Encouraging Editorial Flexibility in Cases of Textual Reuse.Journal of Korean medical science · 2017Article
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Abstract
This study focuses on retraction notices from two major Latin American/Caribbean indexing databases: SciELO and LILACS. SciELO includes open scientific journals published mostly in Latin America/the Caribbean, from which 10 % are also indexed by Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge Journal of Citation Reports (JCR). LILACS has a similar geographical coverage and includes dissertations and conference/symposia proceedings, but it is limited to publications in the health sciences. A search for retraction notices was performed in these two databases using the keywords "retracted", "retraction" "withdrawal", "withdrawn", "removed" and "redress". Documents were manually checked to identify those that actually referred to retractions, which were then analyzed and categorized according to the reasons alleged in the notices. Dates of publication/retraction and time to retraction were also recorded. Searching procedures were performed between June and December 2014. Thirty-one retraction notices were identified, fifteen of which were in JCR-indexed journals. "Plagiarism" was alleged in six retractions of this group. Among the non-JCR journals, retraction reasons were alleged in fourteen cases, twelve of which were attributed to "plagiarism". The proportion of retracted articles for the SciELO database was approximately 0.005 %. The reasons alleged in retraction notices may be used as signposts to inform discussions in Latin America on plagiarism and research integrity. At the international level, these results suggest that the correction of the literature is becoming global and is not limited to mainstream international publications.
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