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  "description": "Chemblaics (pronounced chem-bla-ics) is the science that uses open science and computers to solve problems in chemistry, biochemistry and related fields.",
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      "name": "Egon Willighagen",
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      "url": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/02/16/retraction-data-in-wikidata.html",
      "title": "Retracted articles in Wikidata",
      "content_html": "<p>A good number of years ago, a colleague and I explored if we could get access to the <a href=\"retractiondatabase.org/\">Retraction Watch Database</a>,\nbut we could not afford it. We have been using data on retractions for curate our databases, like\n<a href=\"https://www.wikipathways.org/\">WikiPathways</a>. A database should not contain knowledge based on (only) a retracted article.\nWikidata, btw, has a small number (499) of statements supported by retracted articles. Similarly, it turns out that I am\n<a href=\"https://w.wiki/8pwe\">citing retracted articles in two papers</a> (and a preprint of one of them).</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.wikidata.org/\">Wikidata</a> has a good number of retracted articles in their database\n(<a href=\"https://scholia.toolforge.org/statistics\">some 21 thousand at the time of writing</a>). A lot of this data\ncomes from CrossRef, that recently <a href=\"https://www.crossref.org/blog/news-crossref-and-retraction-watch/\">acquired the Retraction Watch Database</a>\n(doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.13003/c23rw1d9\">10.13003/c23rw1d9</a>)) and started providing the content as FAIR and Open data.\nWith <a href=\"https://github.com/egonw/ons-wikidata/blob/main/RetractionWatch/quickstatements.groovy\">a Bacting-based script</a>\nI am regularly updating Wikidata with annotations from CrossRef, giving a rich dataset in Wikidata around\nthe queries. Over the past few years I have written various SPARQL queries to show the results which today\nI <a href=\"https://bigcat-um.github.io/sparql-examples/examples/WikidataRetractions/\">collected under a single home</a>:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"/assets/images/retraction_SPARQL.png\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\n<h4>References</h4>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n    <div class=\"csl-entry\">Agrawal, A., Balcı, H., Hanspers, K., Coort, S. L., Martens, M., Slenter, D. N., Ehrhart, F., Digles, D., Waagmeester, A., Wassink, I., Abbassi-Daloii, T., Lopes, E. N., Iyer, A., Acosta, J. M., Willighagen, L. G., Nishida, K., Riutta, A., Basaric, H., Evelo, C. T., … Pico, A. R. (2023). WikiPathways 2024: next generation pathway database. <i>Nucleic Acids Research</i>, <i>52</i>(D1), D679–D689. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad960 <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/NAR/GKAD960\">CrossRef</a> <a href=\"https://qlever.scholia.wiki/doi/10.1093/NAR/GKAD960\">Scholia</a></div>\n    <div class=\"csl-entry\">Hendricks, G., &#38; Lammey, R. (2023). <i>Crossref acquires Retraction Watch data and opens it for the scientific community</i>. Crossref. https://doi.org/10.13003/c23rw1d9 <b>[cito:citesAsEvidence]</b> <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.13003/c23rw1d9\">CrossRef</a> <a href=\"https://qlever.scholia.wiki/doi/10.13003/c23rw1d9\">Scholia</a></div>\n  </div>",
      "summary": "A good number of years ago, a colleague and I explored if we could get access to the Retraction Watch Database, but we could not afford it. We have been using data on retractions for curate our databases, like WikiPathways. A database should not contain knowledge based on (only) a retracted article. Wikidata, btw, has a small number (499) of statements supported by retracted articles. Similarly, it turns out that I am citing retracted articles in two papers (and a preprint of one of them).",
      "image": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/assets/images/retraction_SPARQL.png",
      "date_published": "2025-02-16T00:00:00+00:00",
      "date_modified": "2025-02-16T00:00:00+00:00",
      "tags": ["wikidata","wikipathways"],
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        "authors": [ { "name": "Egon Willighagen", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286" } ]
      
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