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Search for retractions #249

Closed clbarnes closed 2 years ago

clbarnes commented 2 years ago

The largest retraction database (retractionwatch) doesn't have an API, but openretractions does. A tool to go through your .bib and raise retractions and other updates would be valuable, and should only require the DOI.

nschloe commented 2 years ago

This is now implemented. :tada:

clbarnes commented 2 years ago

I got most of the way through an implementation too, but stalled when it turned out openretractions' database is very patchy. I picked a few DOIs from retractionwatch's top 10 most cited and openretractions had none of them, even thought they seem to have been reported correctly on pubmed/ crossref. It may be worth mentioning which database your implementation uses in the docs so that people can be aware of any caveats associated with it.

nschloe commented 2 years ago

Add this to the readme and help. Let me know if you find any better site for this.

clbarnes commented 2 years ago

I did contact retractionwatch about making their data available over an API; they said it's something they'd like to do and existed somewhere on the backlog but wasn't a priority and they had limited dev time.

nschloe commented 2 years ago

Ha, I feel that. :smile_cat: