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

Alison J. Abritis · Ivan Oransky

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Academic Publishing and Open Access scientometrics and bibliometrics research Academic integrity and plagiarism

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More than 20 papers about COVID-19 have been retracted at the time of this writing.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.

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2020Scientists are drowning in COVID-19 papers. Can new tools keep them afloat?2018What a massive database of retracted papers reveals about science publishing's ‘death penalty'

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