Even after “zombie papers” are retracted, a new study finds they live on thanks to citations—which could have real-world consequences.
, for example, found that 94% of 299 citations to retracted articles still listed in the MEDLINE database. And “most editors do not seem to make correcting the record a priority,” Oransky says.
For half of the 86 papers, they got no response. Some authors who did respond said they didn’t plan to amend their papers because, for example, the publication was too old, or they didn’t have time to do a reanalysis. Some asserted that the elimination of a single, retracted study likely would not have changed their overall findings. There is some evidence for that position.
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