Dataset for Reassessment of the agreement in retraction indexing across 4 multidisciplinary sources: Crossref, Retraction Watch, Scopus, and Web of Science

This project investigates retraction indexing agreement among data sources: Crossref, Retraction Watch, Scopus, and Web of Science. As of July 2024, this reassesses the April 2023 union list of Schneider et al. (2023): https://doi.org/10.55835/6441e5cae04dbe5586d06a5f. As of April 2023, over 1 in 5 DOIs had discrepancies in retraction indexing among the 49,924 DOIs indexed as retracted in at least one of Crossref, Retraction Watch, Scopus, and Web of Science (Schneider et al., 2023). Here, we determine what changed in 15 months.

Pipeline code to get the results files can be found in the GitHub repository
https://github.com/infoqualitylab/retraction-indexing-agreement in the iPython notebook 'MET-STI2024_Reassessment_of_retraction_indexing_agreement.ipynb'

Some files have been redacted to remove proprietary data, as noted in README.txt. Among our sources, data is openly available only for Crossref and Retraction Watch.

FILE FORMATS:
1) unionlist_completed_2023-09-03-crws-ressess.csv - UTF-8 CSV file
2) unionlist_completed-ria_2024-07-09-crws-ressess.csv - UTF-8 CSV file
3) unionlist-15months-period_sankey.png - Portable Network Graphics (PNG) file
4) unionlist_ria_proportion_comparison.png - Portable Network Graphics (PNG) file
5) README.txt - text file

FILE DESCRIPTION:
Description of the files can be found in README.txt