REVIEW ARTICLE
[RETRACTED ARTICLE] A survey of recently published papers on orthopedics in the Brazilian scientific press
Mauricio Rocha-e-Silva; Ariane Maris Gomes
Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo
The authors of the article specified below, in agreement with the Editor-in-Chief of this journal, decided on their own initiative to retract that article.
Alerted by Thomson Reuters in June 2013 on the presence of anomalous citation parameters occurred on the calculation of JCR 2012, the Editorial Board of Acta Ortopédica Brasileira conducted a search for irregular citations in this journal. The authors reiterate that the scientific content of the article in question does not present any methodological flaws, plagiarism or anything that may disqualify it scientifically, and the reason for its retraction is solely due to the irregular pattern of citations to other journals in its bibliography. Retracted article: Rocha-e-Silva, Mauricio and Maris Gomes, Ariane. A survey of recently published papers on orthopedics in the Brazilian scientific press. Acta Ortop Bras, Dec 2012, vol.20, no.6, p.367-71.
São Paulo, December 16th, 2013
Authors: Rocha e Silva, M. and Maris Gomes, A.
Olavo Pires de Camargo,
Editor-in-Chief, Acta Ortopédica Brasileira.
Article received on 5/14/2012 and approved on 6/25/2012.
All the authors declare that there is no potential conflict of interest referring to this article.
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
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Date of issue
Dec 2012
