retraction: Detect Retracted References in Documents and Bibliographies
Scans manuscripts, bibliographies, and reference lists for citations to retracted publications so that authors can avoid citing retracted work. 'retraction' reads bibliographic formats (BibTeX, BibLaTeX, CSL-JSON, RIS, EndNote XML) and document formats (R Markdown, Quarto, 'LaTeX', Markdown, HTML, JATS XML, Word, and PDF), extracts and normalizes identifiers, and checks them against retraction data. The default data source is the Retraction Watch database served through the 'XeraRetractionTracker' API; 'Crossref', 'OpenAlex', 'Europe PMC', 'PubMed', 'DataCite', and a preprint source ('arXiv' and 'bioRxiv' withdrawals) are available as additional sources ('OpenAlex' retraction data is itself derived from Retraction Watch). Within each source, matching proceeds from exact Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and 'PubMed' identifier lookups to fuzzy title matching, and results are returned as a tidy table with a match-quality score and an optional self-contained HTML report.
| Version: | 0.1.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.0) |
| Imports: | cli (≥ 3.0.0), httr2, jsonlite, stringdist, tibble, tools, utils, xml2 |
| Suggests: | arrow, covr, DBI, DT, furrr, future, httptest2, knitr, pdftools, rmarkdown, RSQLite, rstudioapi, shiny, stringi (≥ 1.5.3), testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr, writexl |
| Published: | 2026-07-10 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.retraction (may not be active yet) |
| Author: | Ahmad Sofi-Mahmudi
 [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Ahmad Sofi-Mahmudi <a.sofimahmudi at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/choxos/retraction/issues |
| License: | GPL-3 |
| URL: | https://github.com/choxos/retraction, https://choxos.github.io/retraction/ |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Language: | en-US |
| Citation: | retraction citation info |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | retraction results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | retraction.html , retraction.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
How the matching thresholds were calibrated (source, R code) Getting started with retraction (source, R code) Workflows: CI gates, reviews, monitoring, and pipelines (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | retraction_0.1.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): retraction_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): retraction_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available |
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