A 2011 study published in the scientific journal Infection and Immunity found that high-impact journals—those that tend to get the most clicks, reads, press, and citations for the articles they publish—have a much larger retraction rate than their less-publicized, less-cited peer journals.
This lines up with more recent (if contested) findings (published…
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