Hisashi Moriguchi, who retracted two papers last year because he and his colleagues could not “guarantee the accuracy of the results and conclusions,” has now had another paper withdrawn — at least temporarily.
A notice on the paper, “Autologous human cardiac stem cells transplantation for the treatment of ischaemic cardiomyopathy: first study of human-induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell-derived cardiomyocytes transplantation,” which appeared in BMJ Case Reports, now reads:
Temporarily withdrawn while we investigate a complaint.
Another of Moriguchi’s papers in the same journal is now subject to a “Notice of redundant publication:”
BMJ Case Reports wishes to inform its readers of the following redundant publication.
The publication:
Moriguchi H, Madson J. Stable expressions of nine genes within human oocytes and live birth by in vitro fertilisation. BMJ Case Rep Published Online 18 Apr 2013. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2013-008988.
Considerably overlaps with the article:
Moriguchi H, Zhang Y, Mihara M, Sato C. Successful cryopreservation of human ovarian cortex tissues using supercooling. Sci Rep 2012;2:537.
The article in Scientific Reports has been retracted.
Hat tip: Juuichi Jigen
Why was the original article in Scientific Reports retracted and not the later near-identical article in BMJ Case Reports?
If you are referring to the second part, note that “notice of redundant publication” is the same as a retraction. In fact, the original case report says “retracted due to duplicate publication”.