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BACKGROUND: The literature on scientific publication errors in medical research is limited, and no studies on emergency medicine publications have been conducted yet. This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of the publication errors in emergency medicine literature. METHODS: This bibliometric study reviewed intervened publication errors in the manuscripts of seven high-impact emergency medicine journals from 2000 to 2020, covering twenty years, and evaluated the corrections in the forms of an erratum, corrigendum, addendum, and retracted papers. The detected publication error rate and the trend, error severity, and error types were calculated. RESULTS: We detected 257 intervened scientific papers consisting of 251 corrections due to one or more publication errors and six retractions. Authors were the primary source of the errors (93.2%). Most of the errors were in the author attribution section (40.5%). The published errors of 7.2% had an impact on the paper's conclusion. Simple typographic errors were the most common error type (62.5%). The corrected publication error rate was 1.3%, with a steady trend over the twenty years. CONCLUSIONS: Publications errors are inevitable, but it is possible to minimize them. The number of corrections in emergency medicine literature is at a low rate and show many similarities with the previous literature.
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Pesquisa Biomédica , Medicina de Emergência , Publicações Periódicas como Assunto , Má Conduta Científica , Bibliometria , HumanosRESUMO
Two errors in the article Best Match Graphs (Geiß et al. in JMB 78: 2015-2057, 2019) are corrected. One concerns the tacit assumption that digraphs are sink-free, which has to be added as an additional precondition in Lemma 9, Lemma 11, Theorem 4. Correspondingly, Algorithm 2 requires that its input is sink-free. The second correction concerns an additional necessary condition in Theorem 9 required to characterize best match graphs. The amended results simplify the construction of least resolved trees for n-cBMGs, i.e., Algorithm 1. All other results remain unchanged and are correct as stated.
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We regret to inform about an error in the above-mentioned paper, i.e., the raw Raman spectrum of copper-carbon DC arc discharge product prepared with 10% of CH4 in the gas mixture of CH4/He as shown in figure 5c. This raw spectrum and its deconvoluted components are replaced. The corresponding text about Raman results is re-described. These errors do not affect the discussion or interpretation of the results. We would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused.
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Four of the equations in the article "A model for estimating the total absorbed dose to the thyroid in Swedish inhabitants following the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident: implications for existing international estimates and future model applications " were incomplete or erroneously expressed. A corrigendum is attached with the amended equations.
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Two errors have been found in paragraph 2 of section 2.2. An incorrect volume for the amount of AgNO3 solution added and the order in which solutions were added is wrong.
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Neurologia , Neurocirurgia , Humanos , História do Século XX , Universidades , Procedimentos NeurocirúrgicosAssuntos
Depressão , População Rural , Humanos , Idoso , Depressão/epidemiologia , Estudos Longitudinais , China , População UrbanaRESUMO
The authors would like to apologise for an error made in the acknowledgement of the above mentioned article. In the acknowledgement section of the article, paragraph 'This project was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR), at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, under grant no. (G-282/ 724246/1436). The authors, therefore, acknowledge with thanks DSR for technical and financial support'. Should read: This project was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR), at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, under grant no. (G-282-246-36). The authors, therefore, acknowledge with thanks DSR for technical and financial support'.