Article retraction rates in selected MeSH term categories in PubMed published between 2010 and 2020

• Published in: Accountability in research Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 263 - 276
• Main Authors: Alexander, Robert, Peterson, Christopher J, Yang, Shengping, Nugent, Kenneth
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Taylor & Francis 03.04.2025; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Bibliometrics; Biomedical Research; Categories; Humans; Medical Subject Headings; Medical Subject Headings-MeSH; Neoplasms; publication output; Publishers and publishing; PubMed; PubMed - statistics & numerical data; Research design; Retraction of Publication as Topic; Searching; Publishers and publishing; publication output; PubMed; bibliometrics

* Article retractions occurred in all subsets of articles classified by the 15 PubMed MeSH terms used in this study. * The time to retraction and the rate of retraction differed significantly across research topics classified by these MeSH terms. This suggests that research content and visibility af...