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Other than detecting impact in advance, alternative metrics could act as early warning signs of retractions: tentative findings of a study into the papers retracted by PLoS ONE limitations

  • Time from publication to retraction may vary by a lot so attention indicated by alternative metrics may not be an accurate representation of why the publication was retracted
  • Due to the limited information provided by Altmetrics, several factors were combined to create more indicative predictors – i.e. combining tweets of different purposes (scientific, citation, and retweets)
  • Inconsistent Altmetric data across different platforms because there is no standard
  • Differences between fields of study not considered

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Updated 2021-04-15

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