中国撤回论文的分布、原因与影响(2012-2018)

Bibliometric Analysis of the Retracted Papers between 2012-2018 from China

针对学术不端行为,出版商使用撤稿作为应对手段,要求出版者撤回被发现不具发表价值的学术论文,引发数次剽窃与撤稿舆论事件。中国撤稿论文占比较高。文章对2012-2018年中国撤稿文献进行计量学分析,识别由中国研究人员撰写或合著的撤回出版物;检查撤回出版物的特征;分析撤回出版物的原因和领域;评估撤回的影响。文章以Retraction Watch作为数据来源,检索所有中国作者相关文献的撤稿通知,筛选出2012-2018年间的1,553篇撤稿论文,并设计相关分析变量——撤稿原因、作者、合作网络、合作国家、撤稿来源以及注意力得分,对中国撤回论文进行系统描述。

To deal with the increasingly serious academic misconduct,publishers usually retract papers not worth publishing,which arouses public concern about plagiarism and withdrawal.Given that the publication retractions from China account for a large proportion,this article conducts a bibliometric analysis of the retracted papers between 2012 and 2018:identifying the retracted papers written or co-authored by Chinese researchers;examining the characteristics of those papers;analyzing the reasons and the areas of research;assessing the impact of the retractions.Using Retraction Watch as the data source,this article retrieves all the withdrawal notices for the retracted papers,selects and analyzes 1,553 of them by related variable factors:retracted reason,authorship,collaboration network,partner country,sources(journal/publisher/institution),and the score of attention.Thus,an overview is presented according to the analysis results.