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Eugene Garfield, PhD
Alfred Welljams-Dorof Institute for Scientific Information Philadelphia, Pa

Drummond Rennie, MD

JAMA. 1990;264(24):3145-3146.

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In Reply.—

We disagree with Wysocki and Fuqua's letter suggesting that our citation study of 20 cited publications by Dr Stephen E. Breuning in any way implied, intimated, or otherwise indicated that every one was fraudulent. We also disagree with their claim that the study in any way "impugned the scientific integrity" of the coauthors of these articles.

The publications that we studied were clearly and consistently referred to simply as cited publications by Breuning. No mention of any coauthors was made, nor were any valuations attached to these publications. The exceptions were three articles identified in Table 1 as having been formally retracted by their respective journals by the end of 1988.

The study purposefully did not draw these distinctions because the goal was to indicate the overall influence of Breuning's work—good, bad, or indifferent. A related purpose was to determine what overall effect public disclosure of Breuning's . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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