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[-] Solumbran@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I find it a bit misleading to focus on retractions. Articles being retracted is a necessary thing, and there is nothing more suspicious than a place that never retracted anything.

What matters here is obviously the nature of the retractions, the source of the problem, which generally means whether it's a fraud or not.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Who did the retraction is also important. An author voluntarily retracting their own paper is different from the journal retracting the paper.

[-] Tomassci@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly. If the author retracts an article, I could see that they're honest about themselves and probably just did something wrong, whilst journal retraction is deifnitely a red flag

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Stop requiring artificial metrics like requiring people to publish papers for advancement or tenure. It’s like when you were in college and they required a word count on a paper. It doesn’t make the paper better or the argument better, just longer.

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