The aim of Amira Maoui's study was to identify the reasons for the retraction of Tunisia-affiliated publications in the biomedical field, to describe the characteristics of these retractions, and to assess the position of Tunisian legislation regarding breaches of research integrity.
It was compiled up to November 3rd, 2023, and retracted biomedical papers using the PubMed and Retraction Watch databases. For each eligible retracted article, a descriptive study of the collected variables was carried out. These included the reasons for retraction, characteristics related to the article, authors, and journal.
Reasons for retraction were categorized into six groups. Plagiarism accounted for 45.5% of cases. A post-retraction citation was found in 81.3 % of cases. None of the retracted articles were written by a single author. An international collaboration was found in 27.3% of cases. 95.5 % of journals offered open access with 81.8% using a gold open access model. In terms of bibliometrics, eleven articles were published in highly reputed journals.
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