Former scientist, current publisher. Did someone say bibliometrics? What about Peer Review?
Now at Mary Ann Liebert, but been lots of places: ISI, Thomson Reuters, Clarivate, Scopus, T&F.
I certainly have opinions and have no one to blame for them but myself.
Outcome: the unholy offspring of Clippy and The Terminator
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/technology/microsoft-openai-chatgpt.html
Retr vs removal - preserve the integrity of the record but also respect transparency/accountability
recently formalized a policy on removal
[applause!]
Stigma of retraction for authors
- honest error
- bystander
- is this primarily a problem for academia?
[Appreciate her disc of the goal of retraction in biomed being focused of human health/care/safety]
Papermills !!
[industrial-scale fraud!]
100's of problematic articles - but need to balance confidentiality/transparency
Evidence is often circumstantial!
[This is a personal bug-bear - because by the time we are 'onto' the pattern, it changes!]
Est. an internal team for initial rev
Standard process and internal targets for stages within your control
Engage ALL authors on the piece
Appoint engaged Editors
Establish multidisc groups for comments/2nd opin
Strong record keeping
Process to retraction:
Indent serious calls for retr (vs frivolous or personal attack)
Consult SME
Fair process of investigation
Legal/ethical input
Institutional involvement
Retraction
Underst the content
Underst the allegation/problem and implications for the content
Ident who can help; COPE, Institution?
outline Struct to make decision
Judgements: can the journal resolve? Benefit/harm of var actions? Post-publ : corr or Retr?
