2018-11-11: More than 7000 retracted abstracts from IEEE. Can we find them from IA?
One publisher, more than 7000 retractions Science magazine: More than 7000 abstracts are quietly retracted from the IEEE database. Most of these abstracts are from IEEE conferences that took place between 2009 and 2011. The plot below clearly shows when the retraction happened. The reason was weird: " After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE’s Publication Principles. " Similar things happened in Nature subsidiary journal ( link ) and other journals ( link ). The question is can we find them from internet archive? Can they still be legally posted on a digital library like CiteSeerX? If they do, they can provide a very unique training dataset to be used for fraud and/or plagiarism detection, assuming that the reason under the hood is one of them. Jian Wu