A comparative study on characteristics of retracted publications across different open access levels

Abstract

Recently, global science has shown an increasing open trend, however, the characteristics of research integrity of open access (OA) publications have rarely been studied. The aim of this study is to compare the characteristics of retracted articles across different OA levels and discover whether OA level influences the characteristics of retracted articles.

Keywords

• open access
• retracted publications
• reasons for retraction
• retraction time lag
• bibliometrics