The frequent occurrence of large-scale international withdrawals reflects the prevalence of academic misconduct, understands the current development trend of the withdrawal of academic journals at home and abroad and provides some suggestions for the chaos of academic withdrawal. Summarizes previous research findings were summarized based on the main structure of withdrawal characteristics, reasons for withdrawal, empirical analysis of withdrawal, and suggestions for withdrawal governance, and the current research status of academic journal withdrawal was outlined. It is found that there are still shortcomings in the research on the phenomenon of withdrawal of academic journals, such as incomplete data acquisition, less in-depth theoretical analysis, and high repetition rate of research content. Managing the chaotic situation of academic withdrawal in scientific research activities requires the joint efforts of researchers, journal editors, and research managers to effectively purify the academic atmosphere.