The American Journal of Gastroenterology has retracted a 2011 article on colon cancer by a group of Cleveland Clinic researchers after finding “evidence” of plagiarism in the text.
The article, a review, was titled “Molecular Pathways Underlying IBD-Associated Colorectal Neoplasia: Therapeutic Implications,” and has been cited 16 times, according to Thomson Scientific’s Web of Knowledge.
Here’s the retraction notice:
The Editors of the American Journal of Gastroenterology retract “Molecular Pathways Underlying IBD-Associated Colorectal Neoplasia: Therapeutic Implications,” by Gati A. Goel, MD, PhD, Ahmed Kandiel, MD, MPH, Jean Paul Achkar, MD, and Bret Lashner, MD, MPH, published online March 8, 2011, from the literature due to evidence of plagiarism. The authors have been notified of this retraction.
We’ve emailed Lashner, who serves on the journal’s editorial board, for comment, as well as the journal’s editor.
Meanwhile, the article is still available online without any link to the retraction notice.
Hat tip: Rolf Degen
The article does link to the retraction notice (for gut journal that, not which, BTW)…
Subject Category: Clinical and Systematic Review
Am J Gastroenterol 2011; 106:719–730; doi:10.1038/ajg.2011.51; published online 8 March 2011
There is a Corrigendum (5 March 2014) associated with this article.
Molecular Pathways Underlying IBD-Associated Colorectal Neoplasia: Therapeutic Implications
Thanks, but that was added after our post went live despite the backdate of March 5. And another abstract page fails to mention the retraction — http://www.nature.com/ajg/journal/v106/n4/pdf/ajg201151a.pdf — as does the PDF itself.
As for the distinction between which and that, thanks for the feedback. That’s certainly a subject of debate: http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/which-or-that-or-neither
What a great post title.