RETRACTION: Prevalence of Surgical Site Infection and Risk Factors in Patients after Foot and Ankle Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

TL;DR

This paper was retracted due to a compromised peer review and significant overlap with another article by some of the same authors.

Contribution

The paper was retracted for ethical issues including a flawed peer review and duplicate content.

Findings

The article was retracted due to a compromised peer review process.

Significant textual overlap was found with another article by some of the same authors.

Abstract

RETRACTION:

ChengJ.
,
ZhangL.
,
ZhangJ.
,
AsadiK.
, and
FarzanR.
, “Prevalence of Surgical Site Infection and Risk Factors in Patients after Foot and Ankle Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis,” International Wound Journal
21, no. 1 (2024): e14350, 10.1111/iwj.14350.37606302
PMC10781588

The above article, published online on 22 August 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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. In addition, the investigation found significant textual overlap between the methods and discussions sections of this article and another article by some of the same authors [Asadi et al. 2023 [https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.14300]). The editors have therefore decided to retract the article. The authors disagree with the retraction.