Malik Oyewale Salami University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Corinne McCumber University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jodi Schneider University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
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DOI: 10.31222/osf.io/gvfk5
Abstract
Post-retraction citation may be partly due to authors’ and publishers’ challenges in systematically identifying retracted publications. To investigate retraction indexing quality, we investigate the agreement in indexing retracted publications between 11 database sources, restricting to their coverage, resulting in a union list of 85,392 unique items. We also discuss common errors in indexing retracted publications. Our results reveal low retraction indexing agreement scores, indicating that databases widely disagree on indexing retracted publications they cover, leading to a lack of consistency in what publications are identified as retracted. Our findings highlight the need for clear and standard practices in the curation and management of retracted publications, in order to reduce inadvertent post-retraction citation and draw sound conclusions.
Figure 7: Overview of number of items covered, indexed as retracted, and not covered in each database Source: 10.31222/osf.io/gvfk5
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area.
He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
