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)
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.