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Genetics articles are retracted at an estimated rate of 0.15 percent, which is about four times higher than for all disciplines (this includes genetics) listed in the Retraction Watch database, researchers reported in the Journal of Medical Genetics on July 25. They find that duplication is the most common reason for retracting genetics papers.
The authors looked at 1,582 retracted genetics articles that were published between 1970 and 2018 and catalogued in the Retraction Watch database and split them into medical genetics (44 percent) and non-medical genetics (56 percent). Twenty-eight percent of the non-medical genetics articles contained fabricated or falsified data and 26.3 percent involved duplication. In medical genetics articles, duplication (21.6 percent) was more common than fabricated or falsified data (18.5 percent). The other retraction reasons included plagiarism, unreliable information, and authorship issues, which combined account for about one-third of the retractions for both categories.
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