Fate of articles that warranted retraction due to ethical concerns: a descriptive cross-sectional study

Elia, Nadia; Wager, Elizabeth; Tramer, Martin

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0085846

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Fate of articles that warranted retraction due to ethical concerns: a descriptive cross-sectional study

ContributorsElia, Nadia; Wager, Elizabeth; Tramer, Martin

Published inPloS one, vol. 9, no. 1, e85846

Publication date2014

Abstract

To study journals' responses to a request from the State Medical Association of Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, to retract 88 articles due to ethical concerns, and to check whether the resulting retractions followed published guidelines.

Keywords

Biomedical Research/ethics/standards
Editorial Policies
Humans
Periodicals as Topic/ethics/standards
Publishing/ethics/standards
Retraction of Publication as Topic
Scientific Misconduct/ethics/statistics & numerical data

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Research group

La Médecine Périopératoire et l'anesthésie (70)

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ELIA, Nadia, WAGER, Elizabeth, TRAMER, Martin. Fate of articles that warranted retraction due to ethical concerns: a descriptive cross-sectional study. In: PloS one, 2014, vol. 9, n° 1, p. e85846. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085846

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PID : unige:73851
DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0085846
PMID : 24465744

ISSN of the journal1932-6203

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Fate of articles that warranted retraction due to ethical concerns: a descriptive cross-sectional study

To study journals' responses to a request from the State Medical Association of Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, to retract 88 articles due to ethical concerns, and to check whether the resulting retractions followed published guidelines.

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