1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Citation of a manuscript could be seen as a measure of study visibility and usefulness. Citations depends by many factors such as the subject of the article, authors (number and collaborations, authors' achievement measures), accessibility (access to the full text of the manuscript), visibility (paper length, no. of figures and tables, journal), age of the paper, methods used to make the article known (personal/academic/research pages, dedicated websites, social media), number

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... cited references, etc. Age of papers and citation windows are essential factors influencing citation patterns but if all publication ethics are followed is expected to have no post retraction citation or at least a proper citation of the retracted manuscript with associated retraction notice. However, when a retracted article is cited must clearly result that the paper was retracted either from the text of the paper or from the reference list. This protocol address the post retraction citation of manuscripts reporting a radiology-imaging diagnostic. The study is secondary research and evaluate the scientific publication that reported a radiology-imaging diagnostic method to identify the available and eligible manuscripts as material. 1 De fi ni ng de se a rch stra te gy De fi ni ng de se a rch stra te gy