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Standing on Slippery Shoulders: An Analysis of Post Retraction Citation in Business and Management

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dc.contributor.authorGonzalez Mancebo, Samuel
dc.contributor.authorGarcía Romero, Antonio
dc.contributor.authorOrtega, Carla
dc.contributor.authorAlejo Concepción Perdomo, Manuel
dc.contributor.rorhttps://ror.org/02jjdwm75
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-25T11:47:44Z
dc.date.available2025-06-25T11:47:44Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-27
dc.description.abstractThe recognition mechanism by citing those who have influenced a new piece of research is considered the best way to guarantee scientific progress. The metaphor used by Sir Isaac Newton, "standing on the shoulders of giants," illustrate this mechanism. However, the increasing number of retractions and citations they receive reveal that, in some cases, scientists are standing on "slippery shoulders." Hence, it is relevant to explore the phenomena of post-retraction citations. Our study focuses on three research questions: i) time to retraction, ii) citations received by retracted papers, and iii) highly influential citations received the retractions. We answer these questions using a data set from Retraction Watch comprising 949 retractions in three Areas (Business & Management, Social Sciences, and Technology). First, we conduct an ANOVA analysis to find significant differences among the three areas. Later, we estimate three Poisson models to answer the three research questions. We discovered that retractions in Business & Management are published in more prestigious journals and by more prominent institutions than in the other two areas. From the models, we highlight that the journals' prestige positively affects the time to retraction, the post-retraction citations, and, more worryingly, the highly influential citations. Our results suggest that scientists seem to be unaware that some papers have been retracted. We suggest journals improve the procedure to prevent publishing papers citing retracted papers.
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dc.identifier.citationGarcia Romero, A., González-Mancebo, S., Ortega, C., & Concepción Perdomo, M. A. (2023). Standing on Slippery Shoulders: An Analysis of Post Retraction Citation in Business and Management. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4418554
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4418554
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3820
dc.language.isoen
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dc.relation.departmentOperations & Business Analytics
dc.relation.entityIE University
dc.relation.schoolIE Business School
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
dc.subject.keywordRetraction
dc.subject.keywordMisconduct
dc.subject.keywordBusiness & Management
dc.titleStanding on Slippery Shoulders: An Analysis of Post Retraction Citation in Business and Management
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