The relationship and incidence of three editorial notices in PubPeer: Errata, expressions of concern, and retractions
2020
This article studies the incidence and relationship of three important relevant editorial
notices: errata, expressions of concern, and retractions. The journal club PubPeer
was used to extract 39,449 research articles and the 2,308 errata, 189 expressions
of concern, and 1,531 retractions associated with these publications. The relationship,
time delay, and evolution of these publications were then compared, as was their incidence
in journals and disciplines. The results show that the relationship between them is
scant, the increase in these notices is in proportion to the scientific literature,
and the time delay between publication and editorial notice is frequently over 3 years.
According to incidence, editorial notices are more frequent in journals specializing
in biochemistry, medicine, and multidisciplinarity, and cancer journals release more
errata. Research areas with more editorial notices are the life and health sciences.
The research fields with the highest percentages of errata and retractions are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology. It is recognized that the use of PubPeer as a data source may have influenced the
results.
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