Characteristics of Retracted Research Articles About COVID-19 vs Other Topics

Xiaoting Shi; Alison Abritis; Rujvee P Patel; Mikas Grewal; Ivan Oransky; Joseph S Ross; Joshua D Wallach

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.34585

Characteristics of Retracted Research Articles About COVID-19 vs Other Topics

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Oct 3;5(10):e2234585. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.34585.

Authors

Xiaoting Shi¹, Alison Abritis², Rujvee P Patel³, Mikas Grewal⁴, Ivan Oransky^{2

5}, Joseph S Ross^{6

7

8}, Joshua D Wallach^{1

9}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
² Retraction Watch, The Center for Scientific Integrity, New York, New York.
³ Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁴ Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁵ Arthur Carter Journalism Institute, New York University, New York, New York.
⁶ Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁷ Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁸ Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁹ Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study compares the author and journal characteristics of retracted articles on COVID-19 with retracted articles from other topics.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Journal Impact Factor
Scientific Misconduct*

Grants and funding

UL1 TR001863/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States