# RETRACTION: A Meta‐Analysis of the Effect of Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection Compared with Gastrectomy on the Wound Infection in Early Stomach Cancer Subjects

## TL;DR

This retracted paper originally claimed to compare wound infection rates from two early stomach cancer treatments but was found to have used a compromised peer review process.

## Contribution

The paper's findings and analysis are invalid due to a fraudulent peer review process.

## Key findings

- The article was retracted due to a compromised peer review process.
- No valid conclusions or contributions to the field were made.
- The authors did not respond to the retraction notice.

## Abstract

RETRACTION:

SunC.
,
LiuW.
,
JiangJ.
,
ZhangH.
,
WangP.
,
SunJ.
, and
SunA.
, “A Meta‐Analysis of the Effect of Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection Compared with Gastrectomy on the Wound Infection in Early Stomach Cancer Subjects,” International Wound Journal
20, no. 6 (2023): 2087–2094, 10.1111/iwj.14078.36629038
PMC10333015

The above article, published online on 11 January 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Following an investigation by the publisher, all parties have concluded that this article was accepted solely on the basis of a compromised peer review process. The editors have therefore decided to retract the article. The authors did not respond to our notice regarding the retraction.