---
layout: rule
id: GORULE:0000022
title: "Check for, and filter, annotations made to retracted publications"
type: filter
fail_mode: hard
status: approved
contact: "vanauken@caltech.edu"
---
GO should not include annotations to retracted publications (GAF column 6, GPAD column 5). 

PubMed keeps record of retracted publications in the PublicationTypeList of
each paper's XML entry.