Compliance of Retraction Notices for Retracted Articles on Mental Disorders with COPE Guidelines on Retraction

The current study is aimed at assessment of compliance of retraction notices for articles on mental disorders with COPE guidelines and impact of open access on post-retraction citation of retracted articles on mental disorders. A bibliometric search was carried out for retraction notices for articles on mental disorders using PubMed. Twenty-four (43.63%) articles were retracted in the year 2010 or later and 31 (56.36%) were retracted before 2010. A significantly higher proportion of articles cited at least once post-retraction were without a freely accessible retraction notice (chi square = 10.06, df = 1, P = 0.002). Open access status of the article did not influence the times (in months) to retraction after publication (U = 321.00, P = 0.73).