Retractions in general and internal medicine in a high-profile scientific indexing database Retratações em medicina geral e interna em um indexador científico de alta visibilidade

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Increased frequency of retractions has recently been observed, and retrac-tions are important events that deserve scientific investigation. This study aimed to characterize cases of retraction within general and internal medicine in a high-profile database, with interest in the country of origin of the article and the impact factor (IF) of the journal in which the retraction was made. DESIGN AND SETTING: This study...