Authorship and Years Before Retraction of Articles Published in Environmental Science Journals

Retraction erodes the integrity in research. Author's composition of retracted articles in environmental science israrely discussed. This paper presents retraction notices data extracted from the Scopus database. As previously discussed, the number of retractions is growing steadily. Most articles are retracted within five years of publication although, it takes more time for retraction of articles with multiple authors which is an indication that collaboration reduces the incidence of scholarly misconduct. Retraction reduces with increasing years after article publication. Finally, the analysis of variance yielded a p-value of 0.435 which showed that the pattern of retraction is the same, the author composition, notwithstanding.