Concept

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 data collection

  • Collected 247 retracted documents on February 21, 2020 from Retraction Watch, all of which are from the PLoS ONE journal
  • Got Altmetric data of these documents from the PLoS ONE Metrics page, including the number of views and downloads in PLoS and PubMed Central and the number of times bookmarked in Mendeley
  • Altmetric.com for number of times articles were referenced in other sources, including tweets, blog articles, new outlets, Wikipedia pages, and peer review sites
  • Proceeded with 209 retracted publications and a control group of 418 contemporary, non-retracted publications

0

1

Updated 2021-04-15

Tags

CSCW (Computer-supported cooperative work)

Computing Sciences