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. 2014 Aug 14;3:e02956. doi: 10.7554/eLife.02956

Figure 1. Financial costs attributable to research retracted due to misconduct.

Figure 1.

(A) Summary of statistics for articles retracted due to research misconduct between 1992 and 2012. ‘NIH-Funded Only’ refers to articles that exclusively cited NIH funding sources and for which all supporting grants were retrievable from NIH databases. The complete dataset is available in Figure 1—source data 1. (B) Histogram depicting the distribution of articles by their individual attributable cost for 149 articles for which at least some NIH funding was cited and retrievable from NIH databases. (C) Correlation of attributable cost with impact factor. For articles published during or after 1999, the impact factor for the year of publication was used. For articles published before 1999, the 1999 impact factor was used.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02956.002

Figure 1—source data 1. Articles retracted due to research misconduct between 1992 and 2012, and their funding sources.
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DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02956.003
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