@article{ref1,
title="The retraction penalty: Evidence from the web of science",
journal="Scientific reports",
year="2013",
author="Jones, Benjamin and Uzzi, Brian and Jin, Ginger Zhe and Lu, Susan Feng",
volume="3",
number="",
pages="3146-3146",
abstract="Scientific articles are retracted at increasing rates, with the highest rates among top journals. Here we show that a single retraction triggers citation losses through an author's prior body of work. Compared to closely-matched control papers, citations fall by an average of 6.9% per year for each prior publication. These chain reactions are sustained on authors' papers (a) published up to a decade earlier and (b) connected within the authors' own citation network by up to 4 degrees of separation from the retracted publication. Importantly, however, citation losses among prior work disappear when authors self-report the error. Our analyses and results span the range of scientific disciplines.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2045-2322",
doi="10.1038/srep03146",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep03146"
}