International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM)

Are We Standing on Unreliable Shoulders? The Effect of Retracted Papers Citations on Previous and Subsequent Published Papers: A Study of the Web of Science Database

Document Type : Articles

Authors

Sepideh Fahimifar 1
Ali Ghorbi 2
Marcel Ausloos 3

1 Assistant prof., Department of Information and Knowledge Science, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Master of Scientometrics, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

3 School of Business, University of Leicester, Brookfield, Leicester, United Kingdom GRAPES, Liege Angleur, Belgium Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Calea Dorobantilor, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract
The present research attempts to identify the impact of retracted papers on previous or subsequent papers. We consider the 5693 retracted papers from 1975 to 2020 indexed in the Web of Science database based on bibliometric methods. We use HistCite, Excel, and SPSS software as technical means. The findings suggest a significant difference between the average number of retracted and unretracted papers when cited in retracted papers. Furthermore, there is a significant difference between the average number of unretracted and retracted papers citing retracted papers. The reasons for the retraction of an article may not be the previous retracted papers, yet unretracted papers may be retracted later because of referring to (many) retracted papers. It is deduced that proprietors of citation databases should carefully focus on these papers by checking references to each new paper citing previously retracted papers.https://dorl.net/dor/20.1001.1.20088302.2022.20.1.17.0

Keywords

Publication Ethics
Retracted Paper
WoS
Unretracted Paper
citation

  • Receive Date 02 January 2022
  • Accept Date 03 December 2022

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