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The decline of tenure and the rise of retractions: causation or correlation?
Amidst the recent flurry of discussions about research assessment strategies came Neil Saunders and posted his analysis of the number of retractions indexed in PubMed. At the same time, Giorgio Gilestro weighed in with h...[more]
tenure   retractions   pressure   misconduct   
Posted on Thursday 02 December 2010 - 19:31:15

Increased publication pressure leading to increasing retractions?

I've already mentioned the correlation between the declining number of tenured positions in science and the increasing rate of retractions:

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Clearly, correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation, but the conclusion is t...[more]
retractions   incentives   pressure   impact factor   misconduct   fraud   
Posted on Tuesday 16 August 2011 - 16:51:03

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