RETRACTION: A Systematic Review of Social Support and Related Factors Among Burns Patients

Abstract

RETRACTION: R. Farzan, P. G. Vajargah, A. Mollaei, S. Karkhah, P. Samidoust, P. Takasi, A. Falakdami, M. Firooz, S. J. Hosseini, A. Parvizi, and S. Haddadi, “ A Systematic Review of Social Support and Related Factors Among Burns Patients,” International Wound Journal 20, no. 8 (2023): 3349–3361, https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.14166.

The above article, published online on 23 March 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. A third party reported to the journal that they had found evidence of excessive self-citations in the reference list of this article. The publisher confirmed multiple instances of redundant self-citations. Upon further investigation, the publisher also concluded that this article was accepted solely on the basis of a compromised peer review process. In addition, the investigation found significant textual overlap between the methods and discussions sections of this article and another article by many of the same authors [1]. In view of the clear evidence of compromised peer review, the parties agreed that the paper must be retracted. The authors disagree with the retraction.

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[1] A. Mehrabi, A. Falakdami, A. Mollaei, P. Takasi, P. G. Vajargah, H. Jafari, et al., “ A Systematic Review of Self-Esteem and Related Factors among Burns Patients,” Annals of Medicine & Surgery 84 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104811.