Dataset on tracking the data quality landscape of retracted papers: Flag usage in titles and changes in DOI retraction status

Si, Luyang; Salami, Malik Oyewale; Schneider, Jodi

doi:10.13012/B2IDB-2907908_V1

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Dataset on tracking the data quality landscape of retracted papers: Flag usage in titles and changes in DOI retraction status

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Si, Luyang; Salami, Malik Oyewale; Schneider, Jodi (2025): Dataset on tracking the data quality landscape of retracted papers: Flag usage in titles and changes in DOI retraction status. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. https://doi.org/10.13012/B2IDB-2907908_V1

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Dataset Description	This work evaluates the consistency and reliability of the title flag, i.e., retraction labeling that appears in the title of retracted publications, using 925 sampled retracted publications indexed in the Crossref only (Lee & Schneider, 2023), that are indexed in three other sources, Retraction Watch, Scopus, and Web of Science as of April 2023. We presume the retraction status of an item based on its title flag. For example, the flag "removal notice" is a retraction notice, and "retracted article" is a retracted paper. We compared the item's likely retraction status from the flag with the item's actual retraction status from the publisher's website.
Subject	Social Sciences
Keywords	Crossref; Data Quality; Title flag; Retraction flag; Retraction flag assessment; Retraction labeling; Retraction indexing; Retracted papers; Retraction notices; Retraction status; RISRS
License	CC0
Funder	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Grant:G-2022-19409
Funder	U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)-Grant:2046454
Funder	Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellowship at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2024-2025)
Corresponding Creator	Malik Oyewale Salami
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Related Materials (7) Dataset Lee, Jou; Schneider, Jodi (2023): Crossref data for Assessing the agreement in retraction indexing across 4 multidisciplinary sources: Crossref, Retraction Watch, Scopus, and Web of Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://doi.org/10.13012/B2IDB-9099305_V1 PROTOCOL Salami, M.O. and Schneider, J. (2024). PROTOCOL: Distinguishing retracted publication from retraction notices in Crossref data. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/125231 Presentation Si, L., Salami, M. O., & Schneider, J. (2024). Distinguishing Retracted Publications from Retraction Notices in Crossref Data Dataset Salami, Malik Oyewale; McCumber, Corinne (2024): Dataset for Reassessment of the agreement in retraction indexing across 4 multidisciplinary sources: Crossref, Retraction Watch, Scopus, and Web of Science. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. https://doi.org/10.13012/B2IDB-8457537_V1 Article Salami, M. O., McCumber, C., & Schneider, J. (2024, November 6-13). Reassessment of the agreement in retraction indexing across 4 multidisciplinary sources: Crossref, Retraction Watch, Scopus, and Web of Science. ASIS&T MET-STI 2024: Workshop on Informetric, Scientometric and Scientific and Technical Information Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14004526 Article Schneider, J., Lee, J., Zheng, H. & Salami, M. O. (2023). Assessing the agreement in retraction indexing across 4 multidisciplinary sources: Crossref, Retraction Watch, Scopus, and Web of Science. 27th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2023). https://doi.org/10.55835/6441e5cae04dbe5586d06a5f Article Salami, M. O., McCumber, C., & Schneider, J. (2024). Analyzing the consistency of retraction indexing. MetaArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/gvfk5

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1	10.13012/B2IDB-2907908_V1		2025-09-08

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