TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - The retraction penalty: Evidence from the web of science
JO  - Scientific reports
A1  - Jones, Benjamin
A1  - Uzzi, Brian
A1  - Jin, Ginger Zhe
A1  - Lu, Susan Feng
SP  - 3146
EP  - 3146
VL  - 3
IS  - 
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2045-2322
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep03146
ID  - ref1
ER  -