Abstract

This systematic review examines temporal trends of retractions in cardiology literature and assesses their effect.

Highlights

  • On certain occasions, the veracity of a published scientific report comes into question, resulting in its voluntary or involuntary retraction

  • 1636 authors (85%) who contributed to a retracted cardiology article were authors with only a single retraction

  • Time to retraction was dependent on original publication date (Figure), with an overall downward trend indicating that, on average, recently published articles were retracted in a shorter time span than older articles (Mann-Kendall: 7; S = −15; z = −2.1; P = .04 for trend)

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Introduction

The veracity of a published scientific report comes into question, resulting in its voluntary or involuntary retraction. This is a growing problem in modern medicine because the retraction rate of scientific articles has gradually but significantly risen over time.[1,2] even postretraction, many articles continue to be cited, and nearly one-third of retracted articles are not labeled as retracted.[1] This could have negative downstream ramifications, including wasted scientific resources because many articles whose findings are intricately tied to the retracted literature remain published with amplification of potentially false conclusions. This systematic review examines temporal trends of retractions in the cardiology literature and assesses their impact

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