Corrections and Retraction

Corrections in an electronic environment

The need to publish corrections to scientific articles, and occasionally to retract them, has been recognized for decades. However very little emphasis has been attached to how this is done, provided that the retraction or correction is accessible. We are considering a policy to directly correct our online publications.

Why and how do journals retract articles? An analysis of Medline retractions 1988-2008.

BACKGROUND Journal editors are responsible for what they publish and therefore have a duty to correct the record if published work is found to be unreliable. One method for such correction is retraction of an article. Anecdotal evidence suggested a lack of consistency in journal policies and practices regarding retraction. In order to develop guidelines, we reviewed retractions in Medline to di...

Why articles are retracted: a retrospective cross-sectional study of retraction notices at BioMed Central

OBJECTIVES To assess why articles are retracted from BioMed Central journals, whether retraction notices adhered to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines, and are becoming more frequent as a proportion of published articles. DESIGN/SETTING Retrospective cross-sectional analysis of 134 retractions from January 2000 to December 2015. RESULTS 134 retraction notices were publish...

Immediate effect of forward head rounded shoulder posture corrective orthosis on craniovertebral and protraction-retraction angles

Introduction: Forward head posture, which occurs often in conjunction with increased curvature in the upper body and rounded shoulder, is one of the most common postural deviations. Over time, this poor posture can contribute to the development of neck pain and shoulder dysfunction. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to design and develop a forward head rounded shoulder posture corrective ...

Additions and Corrections

مطالعه علم‌سنجیِ مقاله های سلب اعتبارشده ایرانی

This is to study Iranian retracted papers indexed in Web of Science (WOS) in various Structural and content-wise aspects from the beginning to 2017 to identify cases have ended up to retraction Finally, to investigate the relationship between retraction and publication of these articles. Methodology / Approach: The final research population is 103 papers out of 320872 which using scientometrics...