Expression of concern

WASP (Write a Scientific Paper): Open access unsolicited emails for scholarly work – Young and senior researchers perspectives

Paper Information

Record ID:
27265
Publication Date:
June 15, 2018
Retraction Date:
February 05, 2021 (4.8 years years ago)
Subject:
Broad Categories:
Journalism
Specific Fields:
Journalism
Article Type:
Publisher:
Elsevier
Open Access:
No
PubMed ID:
Retraction PubMed ID:
Not indexed in PubMed

Expression of concern Details

Nature of Retraction:

Expression of concern

Additional Notes:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378378221000268 Upon publication concerns were raised regarding the appropriateness for inclusion of several of the WASP BPGs in a peer-reviewed academic journal. It is the Editor’s judgement that some of the papers in this series fall outside the journal’s scope and should not have been accepted for publication. The idea was to provide an educational series of articles aimed at junior medical and nursing staff on the basic principles of writing a scientific paper. The journal has re-designed its editorial and review workflow to ensure that this will not happen again in future.

Citations (9)

9
Total Citations
6
Post-Retraction
(66.7%)
2
Pre-Retraction
0
Same Day
Post-Retraction Citation Analysis
0 Within 30 days
0 Within 1 year
3 After 2+ years
1485 Days since retraction (latest)
Heavy Metals Removal Using Carbon Based Nanocomposites
Unknown Authors
Unknown Journal
Published: Unknown
Unsolicited Emails and Spam: An Unsustainable Burden for Academics
Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Published: Mar 2025
1485 days after retraction
ADESÃO AO ACESSO ABERTO NAS CIÊNCIAS DA COMUNICAÇÃO: UMA ANÁLISE DOS DOIS PROGRAMAS DE DOUTORAMENTO COM MAIOR NOTA NA AVALIAÇÃO DA CAPES
Sinomar Soares de Carvalho Silva, Francisco Gilson Rebouças Pôrto
Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação Open Access
Published: Jan 2024
1060 days after retraction
Unsolicited solicitations: identifying characteristics of unsolicited emails from potentially predatory journals and the role of librarians
Paije Wilson
Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA Open Access
Published: Mar 2023
3 citations
777 days after retraction
Reconsideration Reproducibility of Currently Deep Learning-Based Radiomics: Taking Renal Cell Carcinoma as an Example
Teng Zuo, Linfeng He, Zezheng Lin et al. (5 authors)
Unknown Journal
Published: Jan 2023
695 days after retraction
Publish or perish, information overload, and journal impact factors – A conflicting tripod of forces
Victor Grech
Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia Open Access
Published: Mar 2022
9 citations
406 days after retraction
Predatory journals and publishers: Characteristics and impact of academic spam to researchers in educational sciences
Jaume Sureda Negre, Aina Calvo‐Sastre, Rubén Comas Forgas
Learned Publishing Open Access
Published: Feb 2022
26 citations
384 days after retraction
Spam emails in academia: issues and costs
Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Aceil Al‐Khatib, Panagiotis Tsigaris
Scientometrics
Published: Dec 2019
26 citations
429 days before retraction
WASP (Write a Scientific Paper): Structuring a scientific paper
Sarah Cuschieri, Victor Grech, Charles Savona‐Ventura
Early Human Development
Published: Sep 2018
21 citations
871 days before retraction
Quick Stats
Total Citations: 14
Years Since Retraction: 4.8 years
Open Access: No
Last Checked: Jul 24, 2025
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