RETRACTION: Role and Mechanism of Circ‐PDE7B in the Formation of Keloid

TL;DR

This retracted paper discusses issues with the original study on Circ-PDE7B's role in keloid formation, including missing ethical and sample collection details.

Contribution

The paper highlights the retraction of a study due to incomplete information about sample collection and ethical approval.

Findings

The original article lacked details on sample collection and ethical approval.

The author contributions statement included individuals not involved in the research.

The publisher could not verify the research's origins due to lack of response from the authors.

Abstract

RETRACTION:

TangY.
and
LiX.
, “Role and Mechanism of Circ‐PDE7B in the Formation of Keloid,” International Wound Journal
20, no. 9 (2023): 3738–3749, 10.1111/iwj.14269.37291755
PMC10588313

The above article, published online on 08 June 2023 in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), and its corrigendum (https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.14869), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The original published article did not include details about the location for sample collection and details about the organization which provided ethical approval for the study. In addition, individuals other than the authors were included in the author contributions statement, which casts doubt about the origins of the research and authorship for this article. A corrigendum was published on 25 April 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.14869) which stated that samples were collected at Xi'an Central Hospital and corrected the authorship contribution statement to include reference to the listed authors. However, no information regarding the ethical approval of the study was included.

The authors did not respond to an inquiry by the publisher and a request for original data and ethics approval information. As such, the publisher is not able to verify the origins and veracity of the research presented in this article. The editors have therefore agreed to issue a retraction for the article. The authors did not respond to our notice regarding the retraction.

Full text

RETRACTION:

Y. Tang and X. Li , “Role and Mechanism of Circ‐PDE7B in the Formation of Keloid,” International Wound Journal 20, no. 9 (2023): 3738–3749, 10.1111/iwj.14269.37291755 PMC10588313

The above article, published online on 08 June 2023 in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), and its corrigendum (https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.14869), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The original published article did not include details about the location for sample collection and details about the organization which provided ethical approval for the study. In addition, individuals other than the authors were included in the author contributions statement, which casts doubt about the origins of the research and authorship for this article. A corrigendum was published on 25 April 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.14869) which stated that samples were collected at Xi'an Central Hospital and corrected the authorship contribution statement to include reference to the listed authors. However, no information regarding the ethical approval of the study was included.

The authors did not respond to an inquiry by the publisher and a request for original data and ethics approval information. As such, the publisher is not able to verify the origins and veracity of the research presented in this article. The editors have therefore agreed to issue a retraction for the article. The authors did not respond to our notice regarding the retraction.