A qualitative and quantitative analysis of open citations to retracted articles: the Wakefield 1998 et al.'s case.

ABSTRACT: In this article, we show the results of a quantitative and qualitative analysis of open citations on a popular and highly cited retracted paper: "Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis and pervasive developmental disorder in children" by Wakefield et al., published in 1998. The main purpose of our study is to understand the behavior of the publications citing one retracted article and the characteristics of the citations the retracted article accumulated over time. Our analysis is based on a methodology which illustrates how we gathered the data, extracted the topics of the citing articles and visualized the results. The data and services used are all open and free to foster the reproducibility of the analysis. The outcomes concerned the analysis of the entities ci

SUBMITTER: Heibi I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8338205 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature