Correction for Fang et al., Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications

MEDICAL SCIENCES Correction for “Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications,” by Ferric C. Fang, R. Grant Steen, and Arturo Casadevall, which appeared in issue 42, October 16, 2012, of Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (109:17028–17033; first published October 1, 2012; 10.1073/pnas.1212247109).

The authors note that Table 3 appeared incorrectly. The corrected table appears below.

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	Fraud

*As of June 22, 2012