Article Retraction & Authorship Guidance

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Scientific Misconduct, Expressions of Concern, and Retraction

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Corrections, Retractions and Matters Arising

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Wiley's Policy for Handling Retractions, Withdrawals, and Expressions of Concern

Atlas M. C. (2004). Retraction policies of high-impact biomedical journals. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 92(2), 242–250.

Decullier, E., Huot, L., Samson, G. et al. Visibility of retractions: a cross-sectional one-year study. BMC Res Notes 6, 238 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-238

Resnik, D. B., Wager, E., & Kissling, G. E. (2015). Retraction policies of top scientific journals ranked by impact factor. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 103(3), 136–139. https://doi.org/10.3163/1536-5050.103.3.006

Resnik, D. B., Tyler, A. M., Black, J. R., & Kissling, G. (2016). Authorship policies of scientific journals. Journal of medical ethics, 42(3), 199–202. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2015-103171