MANUSIGHTS RETRACTED CITATION STUDY - OPEN DATA PACKAGE

Edition: 2026-06-04
Interpretation revision: 2026-09-22 (counts unchanged)
Notice-status snapshot: 2026-06-04
Canonical page: https://manusights.com/tools/reference-integrity/retracted-citation-study
License: CC BY 4.0

CONTENTS
- retracted-citation-study-2026-06-04-r1.csv: analysis-ready journal-level table
- retracted-citation-study-2026-06-04-r1.json: study metadata, summary estimates, sources, and journal table
- CITATION.bib: ready-to-use BibTeX citation
- README.txt: this file

SCOPE
The study checked 744,770 citations in 12,402 papers
published in 2025 across 54 major biomedical journals.

VARIABLES
journal: Crossref container title, with known spelling variants merged
papers_sampled: qualifying papers included for that journal
papers_with_flag: papers with at least one retracted, expression-of-concern,
  or corrected cited DOI
flag_rate_percent: papers_with_flag / papers_sampled * 100

METHOD AND LIMITATIONS
Papers were collected through Crossref by ISSN and required at least 10 resolvable
reference DOIs. Cited DOIs were matched against the Retraction Watch Database and
Crossref update-to notices as of the snapshot date. Notice dates were not compared
with citing-paper submission dates. Rates are descriptive for this selected,
reference-rich panel, not population lower bounds or estimates for all biomedical
literature. Corrections are not retractions, and a match does not establish fault.
See the canonical page and the PDF brief for full interpretation boundaries.

ATTRIBUTION
Please cite Manusights and also credit the Retraction Watch Database
(ISSN 2692-4579) and Crossref.
