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RETRACTION: A Meta‐Analysis Examined the Effect of Intrawound Vancomycin on Surgical Site Wound Infections in Non‐Spinal Neurosurgical Operation
TL;DR
A paper claiming to analyze the effect of vancomycin on surgical infections in neurosurgery was retracted due to peer review fraud and plagiarism.
Contribution
The retraction highlights issues with compromised peer review and duplicate content in scientific publishing.
Findings
The article was retracted due to a compromised peer review process.
Significant textual overlap was found with another unrelated article.
The authors did not respond to the retraction notice.
Abstract
RETRACTION: ZengX. , YangB. , ZhangB. , XuB. , RongC. , SheJ. , GuoW. , KongJ. , LiuY. , ZhaoD. , and XuX. , “A Meta‐Analysis Examined the Effect of Intrawound Vancomycin on Surgical Site Wound Infections in Non‐Spinal Neurosurgical Operation,” International Wound Journal 20, no. 5 (2023): 1584–1590, 10.1111/iwj.14014.36424840 PMC10088818 The above article, published online on 24 November 2022, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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. In addition, the investigation found significant textual overlap between this article and another article by different authors [1]. The editors have…
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Taxonomy
TopicsWound Healing and Treatments · Surgical site infection prevention · Reconstructive Surgery and Microvascular Techniques
RETRACTION:
X. Zeng , B. Yang , B. Zhang , B. Xu , C. Rong , J. She , W. Guo , J. Kong , Y. Liu , D. Zhao , and X. Xu , “A Meta‐Analysis Examined the Effect of Intrawound Vancomycin on Surgical Site Wound Infections in Non‐Spinal Neurosurgical Operation,” International Wound Journal 20, no. 5 (2023): 1584–1590, 10.1111/iwj.14014.36424840 PMC10088818
The above article, published online on 24 November 2022, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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. 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.
Reference
[1] R. Bokhari , E. You , F. A. Zeiler , M. Bakhaidar , K. Bajunaid , O. Lasry , S. Baeesa , and J. Marcoux , “Effect of Intrawound Vancomycin on Surgical Site Infections in Nonspinal Neurosurgical Procedures: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis,” World Neurosurgery 97 (2019): 409–417, 10.1016/j.wneu.2018.10.168.30391768