In their study Gergely Ferenc Lendvai and Péter Sasvári presents a large-scale scientometric analysis of 35,514 retracted publications indexed in Scopus between 2001 and 2024, focusing on temporal trends, citation dynamics and global disparities in retraction patterns. Using generalised additive models, we identified two significant surges in retraction volume, in 2010–2011 and 2020–2022, and revealed that these were largely driven by bulk retractions in conference proceedings.

Country-level trends revealed that China leads retraction counts, followed by India and the United States, while publisher-level data showed the dominance of conference-oriented outlets such as the IEEE Computer Society. Our findings raise important concerns about the persistence of invalidated knowledge in citation metrics and the structural vulnerabilities of certain publishing formats.

Source https://retractionwatch.com/2025/08/27/naohiro-kameta-chemist-japan-aist-40-retractions/

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