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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

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

Retractions correlate better with 'Impact Factor' than citations

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Thomson Reuters' Impact Factor (IF) is supposed to provide a measure for how often the average publication in a scientific journal is cited and thus a quantitative basis for ranking journals. However, there are (at least...[more]
citations   impact factor   retractions   bibliometrics   misconduct   fraud   
Posted on Thursday 18 August 2011 - 09:59:22

Do you really want to publish in a high-retraction journal?

With more than 24,000 scholarly journals in which some piece of relevant research may be published, a ranking scheme seems like a boon: one only needs to read articles from a small, high-ranking subset of journals and sa...[more]
citations   bibliometrics   impact factor   retractions   
Posted on Friday 09 December 2011 - 11:55:12

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