on november 1st  2016, springer nature announced that springer and biomed central are retracting 58 articles published by iran-based authors across seven journals. the decision was made after thorough investigation following receiving allegations of plagiarism, peer review, and authorship manipulation in an effort to mislead the review system (1, 2). not all papers were involved with all of the...

BACKGROUND The number of retracted scientific publications has risen sharply, but it is unclear whether this reflects an increase in publication of flawed articles or an increase in the rate at which flawed articles are withdrawn. METHODS AND FINDINGS We examined the interval between publication and retraction for 2,047 retracted articles indexed in PubMed. Time-to-retraction (from publicatio...

In common usage, a retraction is a statement that relates that something previously said or written is not true or correct. In the biomedical literature, a retraction refers to articles that were previously published and later recanted by means of a formal published notice issued by the editor of the journal that published the offending document. The specific term, retraction, refers to the ent...

I n recent years, seemingly frequent examples of problems related to the integrity of authorship and publication have plagued the medical literature. These issues have been primarily related to the appropriateness of authorship (including ghostwriting and so-called " guest authorship " of manuscripts), duplicate publication of articles, plagiarism, scientific misconduct in the form of falsifica...

The medical evidence base, or ‘literature’, forms the basis for clinical and policy decisions, so those who contribute to it have a responsibility to ensure that it is as accurate and unbiased as possible. Since publications are also used to judge the productivity of individuals and departments, and to select candidates for academic positions, it is important that those who did the work receive...

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The past few years have seen a steady rise in the number of health science journals using plagiarism detection software to screen submitted manuscripts. While there is widespread agreement about the need to guard against plagiarism and duplicate publication, the use of such tools has sparked debate about text recycling-the reuse of material from one's prior publications in a new manuscript. Man...