Global Retracted Research Publications: A Bibliometric Study
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2022-11
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
The present study used a bibliometric technique to draw the patterns in retracted publications over
time. A sample of bibliographic data of 12876 documents up to the year 2021 was extracted from the
Scopus database. The analysis found that the number of retracted documents has significantly
increased in the last decade, with most documents in 2010 (4377) followed by 2011 (3534). The
study found that most retracted documents were from China, followed by the United States and
India. The highest number of 70 retracted documents were from the author Nazari, A. of Islamic Azad
University, Iran, with a rate of 4.04 retractions per total document published. The other authors
were Ueshima, H. (68), Otake, H. (45), Sato, Y. (45), and Iwamoto, J. (41) from Japanese Institutions.
The highest rate of retraction per total documents were of Ghoranneviss, M., Islamic Azad University,
Iran (24.65), followed by Boldt, J., Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (24.04), and Shamshirband, S.
National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan (18.54). The majority of the source
type was found to be Conference Proceedings (11096, 60.71%), followed by Journal Publications
(7159, 39.17%). The study found the maximum number of retracted publications were in the
Conference Proceedings (11096, 60.71%), followed by Journals (7159, 39.17%).
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13th International CALIBER-2022, BHU, Varanasi, UP, 17-19 November 2022
Keywords
Bibliometrics, Bibliometric Analysis, Scientific Misconduct, Research Ethics, Retraction, Scopus