Why and How Do Journals Retract Articles? An Analysis of Medline Retractions 1988–2008¶
Wager, E., & Williams, P. (2011). Why and How Do Journals Retract Articles? An Analysis of Medline Retractions 1988–2008. Journal of Medical Ethics, 37(9), 567-570.
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- In publishing and science it is retractions, corrigenda, and errata channels, where the forward path is tuned for manuscript flow and the return path requires editorial judgment and propagation through indexing and citation graphs.
This sourceDocuments the judgment-heavy retraction apparatus (notices, editorial investigation) and the incomplete, non-uniform propagation of retractions.
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Wager and Williams show retraction is an editor-judgment process with non-uniform practice and hard-to-find notices; they do not describe a forward path tuned for manuscript flow.
“They also examined whether retracted articles were cited after retraction and found 2034 citations to the 235 articles in their sample.”
- In publishing and science it is retractions, corrigenda, and errata channels, where the forward path is tuned for manuscript flow and the return path requires editorial judgment and propagation through indexing and citation graphs.
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