One tweet about the retraction notice posted the day prior to official retraction

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Mehra et al. publication retracted due to ambiguity regarding Surgisphere and the data they provided
- Highly mentioned publication on Twitter – tweeted 39,477 times (720 mentioned “surgisphere” and 1,819 mentioned “data”) before the first retraction notice tweet on June 4, 2020
- Already one tweet mentioning “surgisphere” the day it was published, but it contained no indication of doubt or future retraction
- 2 days after publication and 11 days before retraction on May 24, 2020, one tweet questioned the validity of the data, which was then followed by many tweets also casting doubt on the data collected
- 61 tweets included both “surgisphere” and “data”

Can tweets be used to detect problems early with scientific papers? A case study of three retracted COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 papers findings - Mehra et al.

Haunschild, R., & Bornmann, L. (2021). Can tweets be used to detect problems early with scientific papers? A case study of three retracted COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 papers. Scientometrics, 1-19. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-021-03962-7 

Can tweets be used to detect problems early with scientific papers? A case study of three retracted COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 papers

Can tweets be used to detect problems early with scientific papers? A case study of three retracted COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 papers findings - Mehra et al. figure

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