{"id":1206381,"date":"2023-11-27T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T05:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1206381"},"modified":"2023-11-27T00:34:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T05:34:00","slug":"science-is-littered-with-zombie-studies-retracted-research-still-referenced-by-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1206381","title":{"rendered":"Science Is Littered With &#039;Zombie Studies&#039; &#8211; Retracted Research Still Referenced By Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill published this warning from an Information Sciences assistant professor:<br \/>\nSince 1980, more than 40,000 scientific publications have been retracted. They either contained errors, were based on outdated knowledge or were outright frauds&#8230; Yet these zombie publications continue to be cited and used, unwittingly, to support new arguments. Why? Almost always it&#8217;s because nobody noticed they had been retracted&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Just by citing a zombie publication, new research becomes infected: A single unreliable citation can threaten the reliability of the research that cites it, and that infection can cascade, spreading across hundreds of papers. A 2019 paper on childhood cancer, for example, cites 51 different retracted papers, making its research likely impossible to salvage. For the scientific record to be a record of the best available knowledge, we need to take a knowledge maintenance perspective on the scholarly literature&#8230; And we need to build on that knowledge, not on the errors and fraud&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Slow science, living articles and reducing the pressure to publish are among the interventions that could help. We need a healthy, trustworthy ecosystem that rewards effort, not just results&#8230; Individuals and organizations that do the work of science must ensure that the work doesn&#8217;t end at publication. Sometimes, it is just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Science+Is+Littered+With+'Zombie+Studies'+-+Retracted+Research+Still+Referenced+By+Others%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F11%2F27%2F0157233%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/twitter_icon_large-893.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F11%2F27%2F0157233%2Fscience-is-littered-with-zombie-studies---retracted-research-still-referenced-by-others%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/facebook_icon_large-447.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/11\/27\/0157233\/science-is-littered-with-zombie-studies---retracted-research-still-referenced-by-others?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/11\/27\/0157233\/science-is-littered-with-zombie-studies---retracted-research-still-referenced-by-others?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science Is Littered With &#8216;Zombie Studies&#8217; &#8211; Retracted Research Still Referenced By Others<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill published this warning from an Information Sciences assistant professor: Since 1980, more than 40,000 scientific publications have been retracted. They either contained errors, were based on outdated knowledge or were outright frauds&#8230; Yet these zombie publications continue to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1206381\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,110],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1206381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slashdot","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-slashdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1206382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}