A Systematic Review of Retractions in the Field of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
URL: https://www.jcvaonline.com/article/S1053-0770(21)00798-9/fulltext
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2021.09.005
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2021.09.005. Epub 2021 Sep 10.
Published: J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2022 Feb;36(2):403-411.
Authors: Rong LQ, Audisio K, Rahouma M, Soletti GJ, Cancelli G, Gaudino M. (Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY)
Article description
Summary:
- A bibliometric study
- A systematic study on retractions in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
- A Retraction Watch Database search for retracted articles published between 1990 and 2020 was performed
- Full-length English articles reporting findings were included
Measurements and Main Results
- 63 articles published in 31 journals from January 1990 to August 2020 were retracted
- Original articles (n = 60, 95.2%)
- Scientific misconduct (n = 50, 79.4%)
- Spiked in 2011 (n = 26/50, 52.0%), plateaued in 2014
- Three most common reasons for retraction, misconduct by the author (n = 31, 49.2%), duplication (n = 12, 19.0%), errors within the manuscript (n = 11, 17.5%)
Conclusion, by authors
“Scientific misconduct represents the most common reason for retraction in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia.
Efforts should be made to screen for falsified data and the processes should be standardized after retraction to highlight problematic manuscripts.”
