In this article, we show and discuss the results of a quantitative and qualitative analysis of citations to retracted publications in the humanities domain. Our study was conducted by selecting retracted papers in the humanities domain and marking their main characteristics (e.g., retraction reason). Then, we gathered the citing entities and annotated their basic metadata (e.g., title, venue, subject, etc.) and the characteristics of their in-text citations (e.g., intent, sentiment, etc.). Using these data, we performed a quantitative and qualitative study of retractions in the humanities, presenting descriptive statistics and a topic modeling analysis of the citing entities' abstracts and the in-text citation contexts. As part of our main findings, we noticed a continuous increment in the overall number of citations after the retraction year, with few entities which have either mentioned the retraction or expressed a negative sentiment toward the cited entities. In addition, on several occasions we noticed a higher concern and awareness when it was about citing a retracted article, by the citing entities belonging to the health sciences domain, if compared to the humanities and the social sciences domains. Philosophy, arts, and history are the humanities areas that showed the higher concerns toward the retraction.
翻译:在文章中,我们展示并讨论对人文学领域收回的出版物引文的定量和定性分析结果;我们的研究是通过在人文学领域选择收回的论文并标出其主要特征(例如撤回理由);然后,我们收集了引文实体及其基本元数据(例如标题、地点、主题等)及其引文的特征(例如意图、情绪等),利用这些数据,对人文学领域的撤回进行了定量和定性研究,对引文实体摘要和文字引文背景进行了描述性统计和专题模型分析;作为我们的主要调查结果的一部分,我们注意到在引文年之后,引文的总数持续增加,很少有实体提到撤回内容或对引文实体表示负面情绪;此外,我们在若干场合,我们注意到,在引文引自卫生科学领域的回文文章时,我们所引引自的健康科学领域的实体,如果与人文和社会科学领域相比,则更加关切和了解和认识。