A protocol to gather, characterize and analyze incoming citations of retracted articles.

ABSTRACT: In this article, we present a methodology which takes as input a collection of retracted articles, gathers the entities citing them, characterizes such entities according to multiple dimensions (disciplines, year of publication, sentiment, etc.), and applies a quantitative and qualitative analysis on the collected values. The methodology is composed of four phases: (1) identifying, retrieving, and extracting basic metadata of the entities which have cited a retracted article, (2) extracting and labeling additional features based on the textual content of the citing entities, (3) building a descriptive statistical summary based on the collected data, and finally (4) running a topic modeling analysis. The goal of the methodology is to generate data and visualizations that help understanding

SUBMITTER: Heibi I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9295990 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature