ReviewArchives of physiotherapy2020
Retracted articles in rehabilitation: just the tip of the iceberg? A bibliometric analysis.
Review in Archives of physiotherapy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Retractions of Health Economic Evaluations: A Systematic Review.PharmacoEconomics - open · 2026Pooled it
- Retracted articles in scientific literature: A bibliometric analysis from 2003 to 2022 using the Web of Science.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Cairo Consensus Statement on Research Integrity of Randomised Clinical Trials.Pakistan journal of medical sciences · 2024Article
- What can we learn from retracted studies in the nursing field in the last 20 years? Findings from a scoping review.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2022Article
- Characteristics of global retractions of schizophrenia-related publications: A bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimThe volume of withdrawn publications in scholarly disciplines has grown steadily, but there is little awareness about this issue in rehabilitation. The aim of this study was to analyze the extent of retracted articles pertaining to rehabilitation.
methodsRetracted articles were searched in 4 different bibliographic databases from their inception to April 2020: PubMed, Web of Science, WikiLetters and Retraction Watch. Three independent reviewers assessed the relevance of the retrieved articles to the rehabilitation area.
resultsOf 280 rehabilitation-related publications retracted between 1984 and 2020, 83 (29.6%) were published in 55 full open access journals and 197 (70.4%) were published in 147 traditional, non-open access or hybrid journals. In the last 10 years (2009-2018) there was a significant steady increase in both the total number of retractions (p < 0.005; r = 0.856; R
conclusionsOur data indicate that the number of retracted articles in rehabilitation is increasing, although the phenomenon is still limited. However, the true prevalence of misconduct may go unnoticed due to the large number of low-quality journals not indexed in the searched databases. Physiotherapists should be aware of the danger of misleading information originating from withdrawn publications.
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