# 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This paper was retracted due to compromised peer review and excessive self-citations, despite the authors' disagreement.

## Contribution

The paper's retraction highlights issues with peer review integrity and citation practices in academic publishing.

## Key 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- The article was retracted due to evidence of a compromised peer review process.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The above article, published online on 01 March 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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 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.