RETRACTED ARTICLE: Trends in Terrorism Research and Publications (2010–2023): A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Authorship, Thematic and Methodological Shifts
Post-publication record
OpenAlex flags this work as retracted, but it carries no matching Retraction Watch record in this frame.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We, the editors and publisher of the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, have retracted the following article:Nyadera, I. N., Odote, P., Agwanda, B., & Nzau, M. (2025). Trends in Terrorism Research and Publications (2010–2023): A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Authorship, Thematic and Methodological Shifts. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2025.2560871Since publication, concerns have been raised about the accuracy and validity of many references in this article. When approached for an explanation, the authors responded and confirmed that there were problems with the references in question. As a result, the editor and the publisher no longer have confidence in the content presented.As verifying the validity of published work is core to the integrity of the scholarly record, we are therefore retracting the article. The authors have agreed to retract the article.We have been informed in our decision making by our editorial policies and the Committee on Publication Ethics principles. The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.028 | 0.213 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.012 | 0.010 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.021 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.010 | 0.012 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.034 | 0.019 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".