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Of 3,490 retracted articles with a known year of retraction, 1,880 were labeled with “retracted publication” in the publication type field in the PubMed record (on 21 Sep 2011), and 1,610 were not. The prominence of retracted articles outside of PubMed has increased since 2002.
