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RETRACTION: Caregivers' Knowledge With Burned Children and Related Factors towards Burn First Aid: A Systematic Review

TL;DR
This paper was retracted due to compromised peer review and excessive self-citations, despite the authors' disagreement.
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The paper's retraction highlights issues with peer review integrity and citation practices in academic publishing.
Findings
The article was retracted due to evidence of a compromised peer review process.
Excessive self-citations were identified as a contributing factor to the retraction.
Abstract
RETRACTION: FarzanR. , ParviziA. , TakasiP. , MollaeiA. , KarkhahS. , FiroozM. , HosseiniS. J. , HaddadiS. , and VajargahP. G. , “Caregivers' Knowledge With Burned Children and Related Factors towards Burn First Aid: A Systematic Review,” International Wound Journal 20, no. 7 (2023): 2887–2897, 10.1111/iwj.14130.36859701 PMC10410335 The above article, published online on 01 March 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. A third party reported to the journal that they had found evidence of excessive self‐citations in the reference list of this article. The publisher confirmed multiple instances of redundant self‐citations. Upon further investigation, the publisher also concluded that this article was accepted solely on the basis of a…
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TopicsBurn Injury Management and Outcomes
RETRACTION:
R. Farzan , A. Parvizi , P. Takasi , A. Mollaei , S. Karkhah , M. Firooz , S. J. Hosseini , S. Haddadi , and P. G. Vajargah , “Caregivers' Knowledge With Burned Children and Related Factors towards Burn First Aid: A Systematic Review,” International Wound Journal 20, no. 7 (2023): 2887–2897, 10.1111/iwj.14130.36859701 PMC10410335
The above article, published online on 01 March 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. A third party reported to the journal that they had found evidence of excessive self‐citations in the reference list of this article. The publisher confirmed multiple instances of redundant self‐citations. Upon further investigation, the publisher also concluded that this article was accepted solely on the basis of a compromised peer review process. In view of the clear evidence of compromised peer review, the parties agreed that the paper must be retracted. The authors disagree with the retraction.
