Fake and misconducted scientific articles are misleading the researchers; it can also impose a huge cost on the academic centers and health system. Finally invalidated published research may give rise to incorrect treatment guidelines that may harm the patients. Based on our search in retraction watch database, 10 retracted orthopedic articles were from Iran. All the reported retracted article ...

background: this study was done to determine the prevalence of publication misconduct among iranian authors. methods: data were collected through an email survey of corresponding authors of papers published in iranian journals indexed in scopus during 2009-2011. using the double list experiment, these individuals were indirectly questioned about committing one of the five misconducts including ...

Quantitative analysis of the scientific literature is important for evaluating the evolution and state of science. To study how the density of biological literature has changed over the past two decades we visually inspected 1464 research articles related only to the biological sciences from ten scholarly journals (with average Impact Factors, IF, ranging from 3.8 to 32.1). By scoring the numbe...