  Numerous studies in the literature highlight that women are underrepresented
in the scientific domain which further leads to the underrepresentation of
women in prestigious publications, authorship positions, and collaboration.
However, the representation of women in scientific misconduct has not been
studied yet, hence the study aims to investigate the female involvement and
authorship position in retracted publications. To conduct the analysis, 3750
retracted scientific papers were extracted from the Web of Science, and the
respective gender was identified for each author. The evaluation included the
year-wise representation of female authors, females at various authorship
positions, collaboration, and female-to-male odds ratio. In all, 26.43% of
authorship is held by women and the share of male-female collaborative
retracted publications is 55.11%. In retracted publications, women are less
likely to hold the last authorship and more likely to hold the middle
authorship position.

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