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RETRACTION: A Meta‐Analysis Examining the Impact of Intrawound Treatment on Reducing Deep Surgical Site Infections during Instrumented Spine Surgery
TL;DR
This retracted paper was a meta-analysis on reducing spine surgery infections, found to have issues with peer review and text overlap.
Contribution
The paper's retraction highlights flaws in the peer review process and textual overlap with another study.
Findings
The article was retracted due to a compromised peer review process.
Significant textual overlap was found with another article by different authors.
The authors did not respond to the retraction notice.
Abstract
RETRACTION: ZhouL. and XingS. , “A Meta‐Analysis Examining the Impact of Intrawound Treatment on Reducing Deep Surgical Site Infections during Instrumented Spine Surgery,” International Wound Journal 21, no. 4 (2024): e14554, 10.1111/iwj.14554.38151914 PMC10961050 The above article, published online on 27 December 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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 this article and another article by different authors (Imam et al. 2024 [https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.14470]). The editors have therefore decided to retract the…
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TopicsWound Healing and Treatments · Surgical site infection prevention · Surgical Sutures and Adhesives
RETRACTION:
L. Zhou and S. Xing , “A Meta‐Analysis Examining the Impact of Intrawound Treatment on Reducing Deep Surgical Site Infections during Instrumented Spine Surgery,” International Wound Journal 21, no. 4 (2024): e14554, 10.1111/iwj.14554.38151914 PMC10961050
The above article, published online on 27 December 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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 this article and another article by different authors (Imam et al. 2024 [https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.14470]). The editors have therefore decided to retract the article. The authors did not respond to our notice regarding the retraction.