Publisher of Molecules, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), Klybeckstrasse 64, Basel CH-4057, Switzerland.
Molecules. 2013 Sep 9;18(9):11001-2. doi: 10.3390/molecules180911001.
We have been made aware of the fact that a large proportion of the Introduction section and corresponding references of the title paper [1] had been copied verbatim from an earlier paper by Hamdy and Gamal-Eldeen [2], and further, during our investigation it has also come to light that most of the text in question had been lifted unchanged from an even earlier review paper by a different group [3]. The authors have been contacted, these facts confirmed, and Dr. Amira M. Gamal-Eldeen has been identified as the person responsible for contributing that part of the paper. As a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), MPDI takes very seriously the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure the addition of high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. In addition to an infringement of the Elsevier and American Association for Cancer Research copyright on the previous publications, this is also a clear violation of our policy to only publish new, previously unpublished material, so this paper is declared retracted and shall be marked accordingly for the scientific record. We cannot comment on any of the scientific data contained in the Molecules paper, which to the best of our knowledge is original. We would like to apologize to our readership on behalf of the Molecules editorial team for the fact this event went undetected during the peer-review and pre-publication processing of the paper and for any inconvenience caused by this event.
我们已经意识到，标题论文[1]的引言部分和相应的参考文献中有很大一部分是逐字从 Hamdy 和 Gamal-Eldeen 的早期论文[2]中复制的，此外，在我们的调查中还发现，有问题的大部分文本都未经修改地取自另一组更早的评论论文[3]。我们已经联系了作者，证实了这些事实，Amira M. Gamal-Eldeen 博士被确定为负责该论文这部分内容的人。作为出版道德委员会（COPE）的成员，MPDI 非常认真地承担责任，执行严格的同行评审程序以及严格的道德政策和标准，以确保将高质量的科学作品添加到学术出版领域。除了侵犯之前出版物的爱思唯尔和美国癌症研究协会的版权之外，这也明显违反了我们只发布新的、以前未发表的材料的政策，因此该论文被宣布撤回，并将相应地标为科学记录。我们不能对 Molecules 论文中包含的任何科学数据发表评论，据我们所知，这些数据是原创的。我们谨代表 Molecules 编辑团队向读者道歉，因为在论文的同行评审和预出版处理过程中没有发现这一事件，以及因为这一事件给您带来的任何不便。
