While looking through www.researchgate.net, I came across an article reference that began with the word "WITHDRAWN". I interpreted this to mean that the article had been retracted from the journal it had been published in for whatever reason (following through to the publishers website, there was a vaguely worded statement that the author had withdrawn the article consistent with some of the publisher's legalese points). I thought that this was a bit odd (e.g., that it was on researchgate which exists primarily as a self-promotional platform) and decided to go over to Medline/PubMed to see if there were any other article with this designation (the article was in a biomedical research area). I searched for "WITHDRAWN" in the title of the article and as of about 10 minutes ago, there were 1765 hits. PubMed does not provide stable URL for searches like this, so, the interested reader is encouraged to go to www.pubmed.gov and do the search themselves. Now, it is true that only those articles with WITHDRAWN at the beginning of the title appear to be retractions and there are some article titles that have withdrawn as a legitimate part of the title. Nonetheless, I set the number of articles per page to 200/page and it is clear that 80-90% of the articles are retractions (some have "article withdrawn" instead).
The truly weird part is that in the first 200 articles listed (sorted by recently added) the oldest article is from August 2012 -- the rest of the articles are retractions from 2012-2013. WTF!?! Am I overreacting to this or is this a really, really bad situation? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=32798 or send a blank email to leave-32798-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
