Or maybe a really good situation, depending upon why the articles were retracted.
On Jan 16, 2014, at 10:18 AM, Mike Palij wrote: > While looking through www.researchgate.net, I came across an > article reference that began with the word "WITHDRAWN". > I interpreted this to mean that the article had been retracted from > the journal it had been published in for whatever reason (following > through to the publishers website, there was a vaguely worded > statement that the author had withdrawn the article consistent > with some of the publisher's legalese points). I thought that this > was a bit odd (e.g., that it was on researchgate which exists > primarily as a self-promotional platform) and decided to go over > to Medline/PubMed to see if there were any other article with > this designation (the article was in a biomedical research area). > I searched for "WITHDRAWN" in the title of the article and as > of about 10 minutes ago, there were 1765 hits. PubMed does > not provide stable URL for searches like this, so, the interested > reader is encouraged to go to www.pubmed.gov and do the > search themselves. Now, it is true that only those articles with > WITHDRAWN at the beginning of the title appear to be > retractions and there are some article titles that have withdrawn > as a legitimate part of the title. Nonetheless, I set the number > of articles per page to 200/page and it is clear that 80-90% of > the articles are retractions (some have "article withdrawn" instead). > > The truly weird part is that in the first 200 articles listed (sorted > by recently added) the oldest article is from August 2012 -- > the rest of the articles are retractions from 2012-2013. > > WTF!?! > > Am I overreacting to this or is this a really, really bad situation? Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=32801 or send a blank email to leave-32801-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
