撤回論文数トップ10の学術雑誌

科学雑誌に載る論文が後にretraction（撤回）されるケースが後を絶たない。比較的地味に撤回されているが、毎週平均いくつか撤回される雑誌もあるようだ。撤回の理由は「でっちあげ」が最も多いという。そんなトレンドを研究した論文が出ているのに気がついた。最新のNature Digestに紹介された元論文はこれ↓

PNAS 2012 109 (42) 17028-17033; 

published ahead of print October 1, 2012

Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications

Ferric C. Fang,R. Grant Steen,and Arturo Casadevall

Abstract

A detailed review of all 2,047 biomedical and life-science research articles indexed by PubMed as retracted on May 3, 2012 revealed that only 21.3% of retractions were attributable to error. In contrast, 67.4% of retractions were attributable to misconduct, including fraud or suspected fraud (43.4%), duplicate publication (14.2%), and plagiarism (9.8%). Incomplete, uninformative or misleading retraction announcements have led to a previous underestimation of the role of fraud in the ongoing retraction epidemic. The percentage of scientific articles retracted because of fraud has increased ∼10-fold since 1975. Retractions exhibit distinctive temporal and geographic patterns that may reveal underlying causes. 

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