The highest "retraction index" in the study went to one of the world's leading medical journals, The New England Journal of Medicine.
Analysis of this effect leads to the prediction that animals should use high leg retraction velocities to improve stability (Seyfarth et al. 2003).
The higher a journal's impact factor, the two editors found, the higher its retraction rate.
Still, CNN's troubles have been compounded by a series of recent self-inflicted wounds — not least a high-profile retraction of a sensitive article about one of Mr. Trump's close allies, which last week led to the forced resignations of three veteran journalists.
This is indeed surprising, because we would expect, at least, the number of negative citations to be higher after retraction.
The blog has recorded other high-profile retractions in its short lifetime.
Monica M. Bradford, executive editor of the journal Science, suggested that the extra attention high-impact journals get might be part of the reason for their higher rate of retraction.
More disturbing is the finding that the most prestigious journals have the highest rates of retraction, and that fraud and misconduct are greater sources of retraction in these journals than in less prestigious ones.
A number of clinical case series have suggested an enhanced impact by LAO [2, 30], increased velocity of canine movement and decreased pain [31], and a significantly higher acceleration of retraction of treated canines [32].
Although the high number of retractions suggests that Thomas can meet the FCA's requirement that "falsity" exists, it may be more difficult to show that the inclusion of fraudulent data was key to winning the grants, another essential aspect of an FCA case, says Torrey Young of Foley & Lardner LLP in Boston.
This is a problem across a wide range of journals, and in fact highly selective journals tend to have higher, not lower, retraction rates.
