评估文章撤回的数据库准确性:一项初步研究比较了Retraction Watch数据库,PubMed和科学网络
1University Institute for Primary Care (IuMFE), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Accountability in research
|February 20, 2025
概括
在所有撤回数据库中,元数据的准确性各不相同. 收回观察数据库 (RWD) 的错误比PubMed和Web of Science (WoS) 的错误更多,强调需要对收回文章数据进行交叉数据库验证.
科学领域:
- 图书统计学 图书统计学
- 学术传播学术交流
- 研究诚信研究诚信
背景情况:
- 收回的文章对科学文献的完整性构成挑战.
- 准确的元数据对于识别和跟踪撤回至关重要.
- 文献数据库中的差异可能会阻碍对撤回的研究.
研究的目的:
- 在三个主要数据库中比较收回文章的元数据的准确性:收回观察数据库 (RWD),PubMed和科学网络 (WoS).
- 识别每个数据库中元数据错误的类型和频率.
主要方法:
- 随机选择的20个一般内科医学期刊,其影响因子>2.
- 从RWD,PubMed和WoS获取了收回的文章.
- 分析了八个元数据变量:期刊,标题,文章类型,作者,附属国,出版年,撤回年和撤回原因.
主要成果:
- 分析了35个撤回和280个元数据输入.
- 收缩观察数据库 (RWD) 显示出最高的错误率 (16 篇文章中的 20 个错误),包括出版年,文章类型,作者名称和附属国等问题.
- 科学网 (WoS) 有一个作者错误,PubMed 在这个样本中没有元数据错误.
结论:
- 与PubMed和Web of Science (WoS) 相比,Retraction Watch数据库 (RWD) 显示了更高的元数据错误发生率.
- 研究人员应该在多个数据库中验证撤回的文章元数据,以确保准确性.
- 建议进行进一步的大规模研究,以证实这些发现,并提高撤回数据库的可靠性.
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