Growth in the number of citations and reads

University of California, Berkeley

- more than 50% of the articles are retracted within 1 year
- scientific misconduct takes longer to be retracted while administrative errors are corrected within 5 years or less
- 632 (64%) articles retracted because of ethical misconduct 
- 311 (31%) articles retracted because of scientific distortion
- 52 (5%) articles retracted because of administrative reasons or for reasons that did not fit the other two categories 
- citations and reads continue to increase after retraction (in the four years, there were more than 30% increase of citations)
- articles in the scientific distortion category receive more citations than other categories

Temporal characteristics of retracted articles results

Bar-Ilan, J., & Halevi, G. (2018). Temporal characteristics of retracted articles. Scientometrics, 116(3), 1771-1783. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-018-2802-y

Temporal characteristics of retracted articles

Temporal characteristics of retracted article graph

Temporal characteristics of retracted articles table

Post retraction citation growth per category

Post retraction readership growth per category

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