Some thoughts on scientific retractions. I think we can fairly say that there are far fewer than we'd expect if science was working well
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There have been in the range of 100,000 scientific papers published on COVID-19 this year. PubMed shows 78,000, and if we include journals not indexed by that resource I'd imagine we'd break 100k easilypic.twitter.com/lOhiLPnYOO
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It's closer to 200,000 if you look at Dimensions and include the 34,000 or so preprints. (One has to take this with a pinch of salt, as Dimensions has rather generous accounting of what counts as an 'article' - but it's probably only 10% over at most).
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We've a stat-tastic article coming this week about COVID papers which incidentally makes a similar point as you have about retraction numbers :)
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Cool! I look forward to reading it 
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