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What is it?

PMRetract is a web application for monitoring and analysing retraction notices in the PubMed database.

You can read more about it in:

Who wrote it?

Neil Saunders. You can find me all over the Web; here’s my blog and my Twitter.

Please note that this is a personal project, not endorsed by my current employer.

What’s a retraction notice?

A retraction notice is a brief publication describing the retraction of one or more articles from a journal.
PMRetract monitors retraction notices, rather than retracted articles.

PubMed search for retraction notices: “Retraction of Publication”[Publication Type]
PubMed search for retracted articles: “Retracted Publication”[Publication Type].

When is it updated?

Every time this RSS feed updates.

Can I see the code/data?

Of course you can. This is a public project at GitHub.
The code for this web application is in retractions/code/sinatra.
There are also some other useful code snippets and raw data in the GitHub repository.

Feel free to fork the project, report bugs and suggest improvements.