Table 3.
Most cited retracted articles
| First author | Journal | Year published | Year retracted | Times cited* | Reason for retraction |
| Wakefield | Lancet | 1998 | 2004; 2010 | 758 | Fraud |
| Reyes | Blood | 2001 | 2009 | 740 | Error |
| Fukuhara | Science | 2005 | 2007 | 686 | Error |
| Nakao | Lancet | 2003 | 2009 | 626 | Fraud |
| Chang | Science | 2001 | 2006 | 512 | Error |
| Kugler | Nature Medicine | 2000 | 2003 | 494 | Fraud |
| Rubio | Cancer Research | 2005 | 2010 | 457 | Error |
| Gowen | Science | 1998 | 2003 | 395 | Fraud |
| Makarova | Nature | 2001 | 2006 | 375 | Error |
| Hwang | Science | 2004 | 2006 | 368 | Fraud |
| Potti | The New England Journal of Medicine | 2006 | 2011 | 361 | Fraud |
| Brugger | The New England Journal of Medicine | 1995 | 2001 | 336 | Fraud |
| Van Parijs | Immunity | 1999 | 2009 | 330 | Fraud |
| Potti | Nature Medicine | 2006 | 2011 | 328 | Fraud |
| Schön | Science | 2000 | 2002 | 297 | Fraud |
| Chiu | Nature | 2005 | 2010 | 281 | Error |
| Cooper | Science | 1997 | 2005 | 264 | Fraud |
| Le Page | Cell | 2000 | 2005 | 262 | Error |
| Kawasaki | Nature | 2004 | 2006 | 243 | Fraud |
| Hwang | Science | 2005 | 2006 | 234 | Error |
*As of June 22, 2012.