Department of Cardiovascular, Huai'an First People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Huai'an, Jiangsu 223300, P.R. China.
Department of Anesthesiology, Huai'an First People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Huai'an, Jiangsu 223300, P.R. China.
Exp Mol Pathol. 2019 Jun;108:121-130. doi: 10.1016/j.yexmp.2019.04.005. Epub 2019 Apr 8.
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief and the authors. The journal was initially contacted by the corresponding author to request the retraction of the article as the results were reportedly not reproducible post-publication. Further investigation by the journal revealed also that the author name Hailin Liu was added to the authorship without editorial approval, after the article was accepted by the handling Editor. Other authorship issues as well as data realiability issues with the article were further revealed by the institutional investigation: http://med.china.com.cn/content/pid/291148/tid/1013/iswap/1. Given the concerns raised regarding panels from Figure 3A and also the comments of Dr Elisabeth Bik regarding this article “This paper belongs to a set of over 400 papers (as per February 2020) that share very similar Western blots with tadpole-like shaped bands, the same background pattern, and striking similarities in title structures, paper layout, bar graph design, and - in a subset - flow cytometry panels”, the journal requested the authors to provide the raw data. However, the authors were not able to fulfil this request and therefore the Editor-in-Chief decided to retract the article.
请参阅爱思唯尔撤稿政策（http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy）。应主编和作者的要求撤回了本文。期刊最初联系通讯作者要求撤回该文章，因为据报道，文章发表后结果无法重现。期刊进一步调查还发现，在处理编辑接受文章后，未经编辑批准就添加了作者 Hailin Liu 的名字。机构调查还进一步揭示了其他署名问题以及文章的数据可靠性问题：http://med.china.com.cn/content/pid/291148/tid/1013/iswap/1. 鉴于对图 3A 中的面板以及 Elisabeth Bik 博士对此文章的评论提出的担忧“这篇论文属于一组超过 400 篇论文（截至 2020 年 2 月），这些论文具有非常相似的 Western blot 图，具有类似的背景模式，标题结构、论文布局、条形图设计惊人地相似，在一个子集 - 流式细胞术面板”，期刊要求作者提供原始数据。然而，作者无法满足这一要求，因此主编决定撤回该文章。
