RETRACTION: Use of Local Wound Infiltration in Open Hepatectomy to Reduce Wound Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

TL;DR

A retraction notice for a paper on using wound infiltration to reduce pain after liver surgery, due to a compromised peer review process.

Contribution

The paper itself is retracted, but the retraction highlights issues with peer review integrity in scientific publishing.

Findings

The article was retracted due to a compromised peer review process.

The authors did not respond to the retraction notice.

The retraction was agreed upon by the journal's Editor in Chief and publisher.

Abstract

RETRACTION:

MengQ.‐Qi.
,
ZhaoQ.‐C.
, and
HouD.‐N.
, “Use of Local Wound Infiltration in Open Hepatectomy to reduce Wound Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis,” International Wound Journal
20, no. 9 (2023): 3760–3767, 10.1111/iwj.14271.37287429
PMC10588336

The above article, published online on 07 June 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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 respond to our notice regarding the retraction.