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nazlinbhimani.bsky.social
Retracted articles keep influencing scholarship. And yes, even “Get me off your fucking mailing list” will be cited many times over. Citation ≠ credibility. #PredatoryPublishing is real. #RetractedPapers #InformationLiteracy #AcademicPublishing #IOEIDL bit.ly/3YyISFw & bit.ly/42yD2oS
Predatory journals even worse since “Get Me Off Your F*ck*ng Mailing List” was accepted for publication
The 2005 paper repeats the phrase “Get me off your fucking mailing list” for ten pages. The authors are still on the mailing list.
boingboing.net
April 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
ertezheng.bsky.social
In contrast, "good practice" in academic citations (acknowledging paper’s retraction status) is only ~5%, far lower than on Bluesky. doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Abstract We present the first database-wide study on the citation contexts of retractedpapers, which covers 7,813 retracted papers indexed in PubMed, 169,434 citationscollected from iCite, and 48,134 citation contexts identified from the XML versionof the PubMed Central Open Access Subset. Compared with previous citationstudies that focused on comparing citation counts using two time frames (i.e.,preretraction and postretraction), our analyses show the longitudinal trends ofcitations to retracted papers in the past 60 years (1960-2020). Our temporalanalyses show that retracted papers continued to be cited, but that old retractedpapers stopped being cited as time progressed. Analysis of the text progressionof pre- and postretraction citation contexts shows that retraction did not changethe way the retracted papers were cited. Furthermore, among the 13,252postretraction citation contexts, only 722 (5.4%) citation contexts acknowledgedthe retraction. In these 722 citation contexts, the retracted papers were mostcommonly cited as related work or as an example of problematic science. Ourfindings deepen the understanding of why retraction does not stop citation anddemonstrate that the vast majority of postretraction citations in biomedicine donot document the retraction.
May 14, 2026 at 1:46 PM