The current 0.0 SPI-Hub™ retractions version allows you to identify publications (primarily journal articles) which have been withdrawn from the published literature based on data from the Retraction Watch Database, PubMed, and Crossref. Works can get withdrawn by the authors themselves or the journal editors/publishers for a variety of reasons which are openly documented in an editorial notice corresponding to the retracted article. The feature will also retrieve other editorial notices preceding the Retraction, including Expressions of Concern and Corrections.

The SPI-Hub™ retraction functionality provides 1) a link to the withdrawn article(s) and 2) access to the editorial notice explaining the reason for the Retraction(s), Correction, or the Expression of Concern. Only retractions meeting those two conditions are findable in Spi-Hub™. Results from searches on a specific author name via ORCID or article via Digital Object Identifier (DOI) will additionally include any references cited by that specific author or the originally searched article(s) which have been retracted (based on citation information from Crossref).

To search for a particular author, that person must have an ORCID profile that is publicly available which contains citations to their scholarly works. Use the "Search for an ORCID Profile" to determine if that individual has an ORCID account. Alternatively, you may start the search using the person's known ORCID ID. If you wish to investigate the status of specific citations, use the "Search by DOI" and enter one or more DOIs.

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• Retraction

  "Retraction is a mechanism for correcting the literature and alerting readers to articles that have such seriously flawed or erroneous content or data that their findings and conclusions cannot be relied upon." https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/retraction-guidelines

• Correction

  A notice that a part of a publication has errors and should be replaced with the corrected, factual version.

• Expression of Concern

  "An expression of concern is a notice to alert readers to major and credible concerns that have been raised about the reliability of a publication, but do not meet the criteria for a retraction, as outlined in the COPE Retraction guidelines, or conclusive evidence will not or cannot be obtained for some time. An expression of concern can be used as an interim notice and followed up with either a correction or retraction, or it could be the final outcome for an article that will not be updated further." https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/expressions-concern

• Retraction Watch Database

  Retraction Watch Database is a repository of citations and editorial notices providing hyperlinks to articles/works withdrawn from the bioscience scholarly record as well as hyperlinks to the editor/publisher statement documenting the reason for withdrawal. The Retraction Watch Database also includes notices of article Corrections and Expressions of Concern, with hyperlinks to the original notice from the publisher. https://retractiondatabase.org/RetractionSearch.aspx?

• PubMed

  PubMed is the premier citation database to biomedical scholarly works. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

• Crossref

  Crossref is a large registry containing metadata for over 150 million journal articles and other scholarly works, which can be queried via Digital Object Identifier (DOI) or other metadata fields. https://www.crossref.org/

• ORCID

  ORCID is a freely available database of researcher profiles. Each profile is assigned a unique persistent identifier number to disambiguate each researcher. SPI-Hub™ offers in-depth tutorials on establishing an ORCID profile. https://orcid.org/

• DOI

  DOI stands for Digital Object Identifier, which is a unique alphanumeric string providing a persistent link to the scholarly work's location on the web. https://www.doi.org/