# RETRACTION: A Meta‐Analysis Showing the Effect of Surgical Site Wound Infections and Associated Risk Factors in Neonatal Surgeries

## TL;DR

This retracted paper originally aimed to analyze surgical site infections and risk factors in neonatal surgeries but was withdrawn due to a compromised peer review process.

## Contribution

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

## Key findings

- The article was retracted due to a compromised peer review process.
- The retraction was agreed upon by the journal editor and publisher.
- Authors did not agree with the retraction.

## Abstract

RETRACTION:

AbdelgawadM. A.
,
ParambiD. G. T.
,
GhoneimM. M.
,
AlotaibiN. H.
,
AlzareaA. I.
,
AlanaziA. S.
,
HassanA.
,
TonyS. M.
, and
AbdelrahimM. E. A.
, “A Meta‐Analysis Showing the Effect of Surgical Site Wound Infections and Associated Risk Factors in Neonatal Surgeries,” International Wound Journal
19, no. 8 (2022): 2092–2100, 10.1111/iwj.13814.35445789
PMC9705165

The above article, published online on 21 April 2022, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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 indicate their agreement with the retraction.