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.

翻译：文献中大量研究表明，女性在科学领域的代表性不足，这进一步导致女性在权威期刊发表、作者身份及合作中的代表性不足。然而，女性在科学不端行为中的代表性尚未被研究，因此本研究旨在调查被撤稿论文中的女性参与度及作者身份排序。为开展分析，我们从Web of Science中提取了3750篇被撤稿的科学论文，并逐一识别每位作者的性别。评估内容包括女性作者的年际分布、不同作者排序中的女性占比、合作情况以及女性与男性的比值比。总体而言，26.43%的作者身份由女性持有，男女合作撤稿论文的占比为55.11%。在被撤稿论文中，女性担任末位作者的可能性较低，而更可能担任中间作者排序。