Analysis of Retracted Manuscripts in Chemistry: Errors vs Misconduct.

Yulia Sevryugina, Ryan Jimenez
Author Information
  1. Yulia Sevryugina: University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States of America. ORCID
  2. Ryan Jimenez: School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States of America.

Abstract

In this Viewpoint we discuss Chemistry manuscripts retracted during the 2001-2021 period (a total of 1292 journal articles retrieved from the Retraction Watch database). We showed that 58.5% of Chemistry manuscripts were retracted due to misconduct; of them, 40.5% of retractions were due to self-plagiarism and 36% due to fraud. Errors and concerns unrelated to misconduct constituted 26% of all retractions. Retracted manuscripts had a median retraction time of 1.7 years and peer-review time of 71 days (but only 43 days for fraudulent manuscripts).

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