  In this article, we show and discuss the results of a quantitative and
qualitative analysis of open citations to retracted publications in the
humanities domain. Our study was conducted by selecting retracted papers in the
humanities domain and marking their main characteristics (e.g., retraction
reason). Then, we gathered the citing entities and annotated their basic
metadata (e.g., title, venue, subject, etc.) and the characteristics of their
in-text citations (e.g., intent, sentiment, etc.). Using these data, we
performed a quantitative and qualitative study of retractions in the
humanities, presenting descriptive statistics and a topic modeling analysis of
the citing entities' abstracts and the in-text citation contexts. As part of
our main findings, we noticed that there was no drop in the overall number of
citations after the year of retraction, with few entities which have either
mentioned the retraction or expressed a negative sentiment toward the cited
publication. In addition, on several occasions, we noticed a higher
concern/awareness when it was about citing a retracted publication, by the
citing entities belonging to the health sciences domain, if compared to the
humanities and the social science domains. Philosophy, arts, and history are
the humanities areas that showed the higher concern toward the retraction.
