作者
Katia Audisio, N Bryce Robinson, Giovanni J Soletti, Gianmarco Cancelli, Arnaldo Dimagli, Cristiano Spadaccio, Roberto Perezgrovas Olaria, David Chadow, Mohamed Rahouma, Michelle Demetres, Derrick Y Tam, Umberto Benedetto, Leonard N Girardi, Paul Kurlansky, Stephen E Fremes, Mario Gaudino
发表日期
2022/2/15
来源
International Journal of Cardiology
卷号
349
页码范围
109-114
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
Retractions of erroneous and fraudulent papers from the biomedical literature continue to be a major concern. The aim of this analysis is to summarize trends of retractions in the cardiovascular literature over the past four decades.
Methods
A review of the Retraction Watch database for retracted articles published between 1978 and 2020 in the cardiovascular literature was performed. Retractions with the term “medicine” in the subject code were selected. Titles and abstracts were reviewed and only retractions of articles in cardiovascular medicine and surgery were included.
Results
459 retraction notices published in 228 journals were identified. The number of retractions increased with time from 1 in 1991 to 48 at the end of 2019 (P < 0.001). Overall, the yearly percentage of retraction increased during the study period (P < 0.001) but decreased after 2015. China had the highest percentage of retractions …
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