Do male leading authors retract more articles than female leading authors?

2025/05/20 by Er-Te Zheng, Er‐Te Zheng, Hui-Zhen Fu +3 · 2 voices · 1 citation
Decision Sciences · Social Sciences · #Academic Publishing and Open Access #Academic integrity and plagiarism #scientometrics and bibliometrics research

paper · doi:10.1016/j.joi.2025.101682

openalex publication_date 2025/05/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Citations

• Retraction according to gender: A descriptive study
• Gender differences in scientific careers: A large-scale bibliometric analysis

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• Gender disparities among authors of retracted publications in medical journals: A cross-sectional study

Discussions

• 🚨 New study: Male lead authors are more likely to have papers retracted—especially for misconduct like plagiarism. 👩‍🔬 Female-led research shows fewer retractions overall. 📚 Science needs not jus [bsky, 10 points, 1 comments]
• Our earlier study also found similar pattern based on a larger dataset doi.org/10.1016/j.jo... [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]