RETRACTION: A Meta‐Analysis of the Effect of Laparoscopic Gastric Resection on the Surgical Site Wound Infection in Patients With Advanced Gastric Cancer

TL;DR

A paper analyzing laparoscopic gastric resection's impact on wound infections in gastric cancer patients was retracted due to a flawed peer review process.

Contribution

The paper's findings and conclusions are invalidated due to ethical issues in the peer review process.

Findings

The article was retracted due to a compromised peer review process.

The authors agreed with the retraction decision.

No valid scientific contribution was made by the paper.

Abstract

RETRACTION:

HanX.
,
KongD.
,
HeX.
,
XieS.
, and
LiC.
, “A Meta‐Analysis of the Effect of Laparoscopic Gastric Resection on the Surgical Site Wound Infection in Patients With Advanced Gastric Cancer,” International Wound Journal
20, no. 10 (2023): 4300–4307, 10.1111/iwj.14332.37493021
PMC10681515

The above article, published online on 26 July 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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 disagree with the retraction.