Poor visibility of retracted articles: a problem that should no longer be ignored.
Academic article retraction mainly results from inadvertent errors or mistakes, non-replicable findings, research misconduct, and redundant or duplicate publications. In 2020. The most common reason for retracting biological and medical research articles was scientific misconduct (62%), followed by errors in the manuscript (37%). The following most common reasons were issues with the journal or publisher, such as unintentional duplicate publication, publication in the wrong journal, or publication of the preliminary version without final author corrections (19%). Nearly 70% of retracted articles had more than one reason for retraction.
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