A M Duarte Francisco
Nanjing Medical University Affiliated to Wuxi Second Hospital, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Genet Mol Res. 2016 Oct 7;15(4):gmr004_retraction. doi: 10.4238/gmr.1504004.
The GMR editorial staff was alerted about two manuscripts that were found to be substantially equal. The Publisher and Editor decided to retract these articles in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). After a thorough investigation, there is strong reason to believe that the peer review process was failure and, after review and contacting the authors, the editors of Genetics and Molecular Research decided to retract the article. The authors and their institutions were advised of this serious breach of ethics. The retracted articles are: Li Q, Chen C-F, Wang D-Y, Lü Y-T, et al. (2015). Transplantation of umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells increases levels of nerve growth factor in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with autism. Genet. Mol. Res. 14: 8725-8732. and Li Q, Chen C-F, Wang D-Y, Lü Y-T, et al. (2016). Changes in growth factor levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of autism patients after transplantation of human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells and umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells. Genet. Mol. Res. 15: gmr.15027526. There is large-scale duplication of text from a previous publication by the authors in all sections of the articles and the Material and Methods section is identical for both manuscripts Li et al. (2015) and Li et al. (2016). Other major study, from where the text has been copied substantially, was found and can be accessed at https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/ articles/10.1186/1479-5876-11-196.
《遗传学与分子研究》（Genetics and Molecular Research，简称GMR）的编辑人员收到通知，发现两篇稿件内容基本相同。出版方和编辑决定根据出版伦理委员会（COPE）的建议撤回这两篇文章。经过全面调查，有充分理由相信同行评审过程存在失误，在审核并联系作者后，《遗传学与分子研究》的编辑决定撤回这篇文章。已将这一严重违反伦理道德的行为告知作者及其所在机构。被撤回的文章分别是：Li Q, Chen C-F, Wang D-Y, Lü Y-T等人（2015年）发表的《脐带血单个核细胞移植增加自闭症患者脑脊液中神经生长因子水平》，发表于《遗传学与分子研究》第14卷，第8725 - 8732页；以及Li Q, Chen C-F, Wang D-Y, Lü Y-T等人（2016年）发表的《人脐带血单个核细胞和脐带间充质干细胞移植后自闭症患者脑脊液中生长因子水平的变化》，发表于《遗传学与分子研究》第15卷，编号gmr.15027526。文章所有部分均大量抄袭了作者之前发表的一篇文献，并且Li等人（2015年）和Li等人（2016年）这两篇稿件的“材料与方法”部分完全相同。已找到另一篇被大量抄袭文本的主要研究文献，可通过https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/ articles/10.1186/1479-5876-11-196访问。
