• T156@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Who did the retraction is also important. An author voluntarily retracting their own paper is different from the journal retracting the paper.

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      7 hours ago

      Exactly. If the author retracts an article, I could see that they’re honest about themselves and probably just did something wrong, whilst journal retraction is deifnitely a red flag