# RETRACTION: A Systematic Review of Life Satisfaction and Related Factors Among Burns Patients

## TL;DR

This retracted paper originally aimed to review factors affecting life satisfaction in burn patients but was found to have issues with self-citations and peer review compromise.

## Contribution

The paper's findings and conclusions are invalidated due to compromised peer review and excessive self-citations.

## Key findings

- The paper was retracted due to evidence of excessive self-citations.
- The peer review process was found to be compromised.
- The authors disagree with the retraction decision.

## Abstract

RETRACTION:

ParviziA.
,
HaddadiS.
,
VajargahP. G.
,
MollaeiA.
,
FiroozM.
,
HosseiniS. J.
,
TakasiP.
,
FarzanR.
, and
KarkhahS.
, “A Systematic Review of Life Satisfaction and Related Factors Among Burns Patients,” International Wound Journal
20, no. 7 (2023): 2830–2842, 10.1111/iwj.14120.36759129
PMC10410333

The above article, published online on 09 February 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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.