As far as I understand, “I changed my mind about the claims in the paper” isn’t usually considered a reason to withdraw. Withdrawal is something like an attempt to retract the fact that you ever made a claim in the first place, and reserved for things like outright fraud or very serious mistakes in data collection that invalidate the whole analysis.
The NIH NLM errata policy says “Journals may retract or withdraw articles based on information from their authors, academic or institutional sponsor, editor or publisher, because of pervasive error or unsubstantiated or irreproducible data.” NEJM’s retraction list above the fold seems to mainly be “oops used wrong facts”. Science Magazine claimed in 2018 that “The number of articles retracted by journals had increased 10-fold during the previous 10 years. Fraud accounted for some 60% of those retractions” .
Bearing in mind that I haven’t yet cultivated the skill of assessing journals’ credibility, and that I found these examples for their trait of looking promising early in search results, it does seem that retraction may not map to “change of mind” beyond “change of mind about whether the situation in which the science was attempted was capable of emitting valid results”.
As far as I understand, “I changed my mind about the claims in the paper” isn’t usually considered a reason to withdraw. Withdrawal is something like an attempt to retract the fact that you ever made a claim in the first place, and reserved for things like outright fraud or very serious mistakes in data collection that invalidate the whole analysis.
The NIH NLM errata policy says “Journals may retract or withdraw articles based on information from their authors, academic or institutional sponsor, editor or publisher, because of pervasive error or unsubstantiated or irreproducible data.” NEJM’s retraction list above the fold seems to mainly be “oops used wrong facts”. Science Magazine claimed in 2018 that “The number of articles retracted by journals had increased 10-fold during the previous 10 years. Fraud accounted for some 60% of those retractions” .
Bearing in mind that I haven’t yet cultivated the skill of assessing journals’ credibility, and that I found these examples for their trait of looking promising early in search results, it does seem that retraction may not map to “change of mind” beyond “change of mind about whether the situation in which the science was attempted was capable of emitting valid results”.