Retraction Watch’s top 10 most highly cited retracted papers – You’ll note that many papers — including the #1 most cited paper — received more citations after they were retracted, which research has shown is an ongoing problem.
Retraction Watch’s top 10 most highly cited retracted papers – You’ll note that many papers — including the #1 most cited paper — received more citations after they were retracted, which research has shown is an ongoing problem.
I thought you meant this MSM one, Kate, also featuring Mark Steyn and not “scientific” papers!
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/12/media-corrections-of-the-year.php
Happy 2016, Kate. Thanks for the blog work.
Kate
I’ve long wondered if it would be possible to game the science citation index by managing to publish the worst paper you could manage to get into print.
Then you would pick up the “me too’s” that didn’t really need to cite you but did to show they’d heard of the paper.
So that might be a factor?
But then I wasn’t counting on the emergence of “climate science”
Kate
I’ve long wondered if it would be possible to game the science citation index by managing to publish the worst paper you could manage to get into print.
Then you would pick up the “me too’s” that didn’t really need to cite you but did to show they’d heard of the paper.
So that might be a factor?
But then I wasn’t counting on the emergence of “climate science”
I refuse to be pessimistic about the future, but this blog makes that damn difficult sometimes.
Leftism has infected all our learning institutions, bureaucracies, media, etc, etc. to the point that self-correcting mechanisms no longer exist. The scientific community should be exploding with anger over the amount of incompetence and outright fraud repeatedly exposed to be ongoing. As Kate has highlighted on her blog before, the peer review system is currently an utter embarrassment. Do they no longer teach that science is a search for the truth, not money, recognition or furthering of agendas?
Lab-coats seem to be effectively replacing ceremonial robes as the garb of preference for charlatans working to herd their flocks. The UN is clear proof of this. So powerful are these lab-coats that even the Pope now wears one under his traditional dress.
Most of the retracted papers sound medical. Not a single paper on pure research in physics, math, chemistry etc.
What is it with medical science? Too much funding?