Apply sunblock, repeat: Duplication forces retraction of paper on sun exposure among teens

A group of researchers in Greece has lost a paper that they published twice.

Here’s the notice from Rural and Remote Health:

The Rural and Remote Health publisher advises that the following article has been retracted:

Saridi M, Pappa V, Kyriazis I, Toska A, Giolis A, Liachapoulou A, Skliros E, Birbas K. Knowledge and attitudes to sun exposure among adolescents in Korinthos, Greece. Rural and Remote Health 9: 1162. (Online) 2009.

Date of publication: 11 December 2009
Formerly available: http://www.rrh.org.au

Readers’ attention is drawn to the prior publication:
M. Saridi, A. Toska, V. Pappa, A. Liachopoulou, D. Aggeli, K. Birbas. Knowledge, attitudes and self care practices related to sun protection among teenagers in Greece. Archives of Hellenic Medicine 2009; 26(3): 355-365.

Apologies are tendered to the Editor and Publisher of Archives of Hellenic Medicine.

The notice is signed by journal editor in chief Peter Worley. The paper has been cited twice, according to Thomson Scientific’s Web of Knowledge.

Update, 11 a.m. Eastern, 6/30/13: Link to notice corrected. Thanks for a Retraction Watch reader for pointing out that we linked to an older notice in the same journal.