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Record W4381327392 · doi:10.1136/bmj-2022-072929

Poor visibility of retracted articles: a problem that should no longer be ignored

2023· article· en· W4381327392 on OpenAlexaff
Christophe Boudry, Katherine Howard, F. Mouriaux

Bibliographic record

VenueBMJ · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAcademic integrity and plagiarism
Canadian institutionsUniversité LavalHôpital du Saint-Sacrement
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVisibilityComputer scienceData scienceGeographyMeteorology

Abstract

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Christophe Boudry and colleagues call for better identification of retracted articles on publishers’ websites and academic databases to avoid propagating scientific error

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.208
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.708
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: Evaluation · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.973
Threshold uncertainty score0.976

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.2080.708
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.003
Bibliometrics0.0110.008
Science and technology studies0.0060.015
Scholarly communication0.0350.034
Open science0.0070.009
Research integrity0.0270.028
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0210.036

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.104
GPT teacher head0.374
Teacher spread0.269 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.

Study designObservational
DomainEvaluation
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations17
Published2023
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

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