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Technology Article Retractions Rise In Developing World
High-impact factor journals have a higher number of retractions because their articles are subject to greater scrutiny, making it easier to detect fraudulent or unreliable results.
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A bibliometric study of article retractions in the technology field from developing countries reveals that the number of retractions has increased over the past 20 years, with an annual growth rate of 20.79%.
The study, published in Scientometrics, analyzes retractions of technology-related publications from 1998-2022 in 90 countries in the Arab world, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
According to the study, 7,529 authors published the retracted technology articles with affiliations to 1,300 institutes and universities from 72 countries. In addition, all 3,703 retracted articles received 34,167 citations, with an average number of citations of 9.22.
Using the Retraction Watch Database, the study found the foremost reasons for retractions were policy breaches by the author, at 44.3%, and journal-publisher investigations, which accounted for 40.9% of retractions.
Other reasons included fake peer reviews, duplication and plagiarism, problems in referencing and/or attributions, and misconduct by the author and rogue editors.
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