Preventing Scientific Fraud

  1. Eugene Garfield, PhD;
  2. Marie McVeigh, MS; and
  3. Marion Muff
  1. From Thomson Scientific, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    TO THE EDITOR:

    The recent article about the importance of integrating retraction notices with their original reports (1) noted their treatment in PubMed but not the procedures followed in the Science Citation Index (SCI), the electronic version of which is included in the Web of Science.

    Ever since the SCI was launched in the 1960s, it has indexed published retractions. In each case, a citation link …

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