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- Published on: 22 May 2018
- Published on: 22 May 2018Retraction notices in PubMed
I searched PubMed for the retraction notices. The 3 retracted articles published by Elsevier have no retraction notices in PubMed. Retraction notices for the 2 articles in the Journal of the American Society of Hypertension were published in vol. 9, issue 10, this issue is indexed in PubMed and articles citations are in PubMed but the two retraction notices are missing. "Publishers of journals in PubMed must submit citation and abstract" (PubMed FAQ for publishers), these two notices should normally have been submitted by the publisher. As for the article published in the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, no retraction notice was found, information about the article being retracted is available in the original article but, as no retraction notice seems to be available, there is no information about the retracted status in PubMed. As PubMed is often the source used by researchers doing a study on retractions of articles (e.g. PMID: 28683764, PMID 26797347, PMID: 24928194) it is important to find this information in the database. Publishers should always publish retraction notices for retracted articles and submit the citations to PubMed when the journal is indexed in this database.
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