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The objective of this paper was to gain an appreciation of the balance of retractions and associated retraction notices of 23 retracted\n                    <jats:italic>Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals<\/jats:italic>\n                    papers associated with paper mills. By 23 March 2023, these retracted papers had already accumulated 287 citations according to Web of Science Core Collection, 253 according to Scopus, and 365 according to Google Scholar, i.e., metrically speaking, they were highly rewarded. All authors had an affiliation (71% being a hospital) in China. Most (12\/21; 57%) of corresponding authors had emails with a @163.com suffix. Four of the retraction notices (i.e., 17%) explicitly indicated paper mills as a reason for retraction although, in general, the retraction notices lacked details and background that could assist readers\u2019 understanding of the retractions.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.2478\/jdis-2023-0009","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,22]],"date-time":"2023-04-22T04:05:43Z","timestamp":1682136343000},"page":"118-125","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Assessment of retracted papers, and their retraction notices, from a cancer journal associated with \u201cpaper mills\u201d"],"prefix":"10.2478","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Jaime A.","family":"Teixeira da Silva","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Independent researcher , Ikenobe 3011-2, Kagawa-ken , , Miki , Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Serhii","family":"Nazarovets","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University , 18\/2 Bulvarno-Kudriavska Str. , Kyiv , Ukraine"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"374","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"2026020518334401128_j_jdis-2023-0009_ref_001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Bhatt, B. 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