RETRACTION: Effects of Photodynamic Therapy in Patients With Infected Skin Ulcers: A Meta‐Analysis

TL;DR

This retracted paper originally claimed to analyze the effectiveness of photodynamic therapy for infected skin ulcers, but was found to have used a compromised peer review process and significant text overlap with another article.

Contribution

The paper was retracted due to ethical issues including a compromised peer review and text overlap with another article.

Findings

The article was retracted after an investigation revealed a compromised peer review process.

Significant textual overlap was found between this article and another by different authors.

Abstract

RETRACTION:

GuR.
,
FeiS.
,
LiuZ.
, X.
LiuX.,
Fang,
WuH.
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ZhangX.
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XuG.
, and
XuF.
, “Effects of Photodynamic Therapy in Patients With Infected Skin Ulcers: A Meta‐Analysis,” International Wound Journal
21, no. 3 (2024): e14747, 10.1111/iwj.14747.38445778
PMC10915826

The above article, published online on 06 March 2024, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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 this article and another article by different authors [1]. The editors have therefore decided to retract the article. The authors did not respond to our notice regarding the retraction.