Table 1. Analysis of retractions of papers published from India from 01/01/2010 to 04/07/2017 based on a MEDLINE search.
Reasons attributed for retraction | Value (n = 46) |
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Duplication of text, figures or tables without appropriate referencing | 19* |
Duplicate publication | 7* |
Allegations regarding data or figure manipulation | 7 |
Authorship dispute | 3† |
Inappropriate claim of ethics committee approval | 1 |
Accidental duplicate publication by the journal | 4 |
Retraction of summary of a henceforth retracted paper | 1 |
Mistake on part of authors which was later identified | 1 |
Reasons not given | 3 |
*One paper each had additional author dispute/peer review compromise. †One paper had additional suspicion of data manipulation.