Quantitative Science Studies
 2021
DOI: 10.1162/qss_a_00155
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Continued use of retracted papers: Temporal trends in citations and (lack of) awareness of retractions shown in citation contexts in biomedicine

Tzu‐Kun Hsiao
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Jodi Schneider
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Abstract: We present the first database-wise study on the citation contexts of retracted papers, which covers 7,813 retracted papers indexed in PubMed, 169,434 citations collected from iCite, and 48,134 citation contexts identified from the XML version of the PubMed Central Open Access Subset. Compared with previous citation studies that focused on comparing citation counts using two time frames (i.e., pre-retraction and post-retraction), our analyses show the longitudinal trends of citations to retracted papers in the … Show more

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“…This would indicate that, in our sample, evidence syntheses that cite retracted publications are not identifying that the publication has been retracted. These findings are consistent with previous research, including two studies which independently found that over 94% of citations to retracted publications do not indicate that the publication was retracted [ 16 , 49 ]. Future research could explore the correlations between citing retracted publications in evidence syntheses and having a librarian or informational professional as a co-author.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 92%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…This would indicate that, in our sample, evidence syntheses that cite retracted publications are not identifying that the publication has been retracted. These findings are consistent with previous research, including two studies which independently found that over 94% of citations to retracted publications do not indicate that the publication was retracted [ 16 , 49 ]. Future research could explore the correlations between citing retracted publications in evidence syntheses and having a librarian or informational professional as a co-author.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 92%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…As in previous investigations outside the field of anesthesiology, our findings that only a small percentage (5.2%) of the postretraction citations noted the retracted status of the manuscript or the misconduct therein are particularly important. 21,25,26 The majority (80.2%) of these postretraction citations were positive, affirming the findings of the retracted manuscripts. In the subcategory of original research investigations, the citations in the introduction section were generally used to provide background information, related work, or temporal context.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 64%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…Our findings are not surprising because prior research demonstrates that post-retraction citations are common and portray retracted works in a positive light (Budd, Sievert & Schults, 1998;Hamilton, 2019;Hsiao & Schneider, 2021;Neale, Dailey, & Abrams, 2010;Piller, 2021;Schneider et al, 2020;Suelzer et al, 2019;Theis-Mahon & Bakker, 2020;Yang, Qi, & Diao, 2020). However, we demonstrate that citing authors did more-they disseminated disinformation when given ample time to learn of retractions.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 57%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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