An "alarming" and "exceptionally high" rate of COVID-19 retractions?

Alison Abritis; Adam Marcus; Ivan Oransky

doi:10.1080/08989621.2020.1793675

An "alarming" and "exceptionally high" rate of COVID-19 retractions?

Account Res. 2021 Jan;28(1):58-59. doi: 10.1080/08989621.2020.1793675. Epub 2020 Jul 11.

Authors

Alison Abritis^{1

2}, Adam Marcus¹, Ivan Oransky^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Retraction Watch, The Center For Scientific Integrity , New York, NY, USA.
² College of Public Health, University of South Florida , Florida, USA.
³ Arthur Carter Journalism Institute, New York University , New York, USA.

PMID: 32634321
DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2020.1793675

Abstract

More than 20 papers about COVID-19 have been retracted at the time of this writing. It is premature, however, to conclude that such work is being retracted at higher rates than the rest of the literature.

Keywords: COVID-19; Retractions.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Pandemics
Publications
SARS-CoV-2
Writing