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Article title: Linking citation and retraction data reveals the demographics of scientific retractions among highly cited authors
Author countries : United States, Italy, the Netherlands
Funding: The work of AC has been supported by the European Network Staff Exchange for Integrating Precision Health in the Healthcare Systems project (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange no. 823995). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Competing interests: I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JB is an Elsevier employee. Elsevier runs Scopus, which is the source of these data, and also runs the repository where the database of highly-cited scientists is now stored.