Medicine

In summer 2023, an author informed the journal that they had unintentionally neglected to declare a conflict of interest on all of the five articles that they had published in the journal between 2019 and 2022. They had been made aware of this on social media, in the context of a widespread movement to discredit members of an emerging healthcare profession that they represent.

We have recently received an Original study in which the authors stated that all the relevant experimental studies were done by a biotechnology company (via a Contract Research Organisation), which had provided analysis services for the relevant data. In the initial review, when we checked the relevant experimental issues with the author, we found that the author could not provide the sources of some human-related materials, as well as some information about animal experiments.

An article was submitted to our journal with two authors listed. Proofs were approved with these two authors listed. However, two months after publication the corresponding author claimed that the article had actually been submitted on the website with six authors. The journal considers the final list of authors to be those listed on the title page at the first submission step.