The Impact Story of Retracted Articles Altmetric it!

The informal sharing of scholarly documents greatly promotes the openness of science. The benefit of open access, however, comes with a cost when retracted articles persist, without notification of invalidation, on the publisher’s website, public Internet and on various social media platforms. This study unfolds the secret life and journey of 10 highly cited retracted papers in terms of their presence in the ecosystem of scholarly communication. The study focuses on the postretraction citations to retracted papers with emphasis on their presence on various social media platforms.

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