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ArticleMedical science educator2025

What Can We Learn from the Retraction of Medical Articles.

Christopher J Peterson, Kenneth Nugent

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Article in Medical science educator, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Christopher J PetersonDepartment of Internal Medicine, Carilion Medical Center, P.O. Box 13367, Roanoke, VA 24033-3367 USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2176-1998
Kenneth NugentDepartment of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Article retractions happen across all types of research and can happen to any researcher at any institution. Retracted articles can have negative consequences, particularly when they are used in meta-analyses or clinical guidelines. Peer review is an important though insufficient means of safeguarding academic integrity, and thus all researchers, including trainees, are responsible for helping to ensure integrity in research.

Indexed as

Article retractionGraduate medical educationResearch integrityScientific misconduct

Identifiers

PMID40144135
PMCPMC11933630

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.