{"id":1108,"date":"2016-11-02T13:24:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T13:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/springer-nature-retracts-58-articles-authored-by-iranian-researchers\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T06:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T06:21:53","slug":"springer-nature-retracts-58-articles-authored-by-iranian-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/springer-nature-retracts-58-articles-authored-by-iranian-researchers","title":{"rendered":"Springer Nature retracts 58 articles authored by Iranian researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On November 1, Springer Nature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springernature.com\/gp\/group\/media\/press-releases\/retractions-from-springer-and-biomed-central-journals\/11002850\">announced<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/in\/\">Springer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biomedcentral.com\/\">BioMed Central<\/a> have decided to retract a total of <a href=\"http:\/\/resource-cms.springer.com\/springer-cms\/rest\/v1\/content\/11003244\/data\/v1\/List+of+articles+by+journal\">58 articles<\/a> published by Iran-based authors across seven journals. The publisher received allegations of plagiarism, following which an investigation was conducted. Since definite signs of peer review and authorship manipulation were observed, the publisher decided to pull down the concerned articles. The exact reasons behind the mass retraction are unavailable, but Springer Nature will publish retraction notices in this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While BioMed Central has identified 28 articles that will be retracted, Springer has identified 30 articles for retraction. The massive cleanup might not end here, since both the organizations are conducting further investigation to identify any other articles that may have been compromised. A spokesperson for the publishers said, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2016\/11\/01\/springer-bmc-retracting-nearly-60-papers-for-fake-reviews-and-other-issues\/\">A much more complex manipulation has taken place from a different group of authors<\/a>\u201d which prevented them from discovering the misconduct at an earlier stage. Springer Nature has clarified in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springernature.com\/gp\/group\/media\/press-releases\/retractions-from-springer-and-biomed-central-journals\/11002850\">press release<\/a> that \u201cThe decision to retract these articles is solely to correct the scientific record,\u201d and that they \u201cdo not have any evidence to be able to determine the involvement of each of the individual authors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To prevent the reoccurrence of such an incident, the publisher has revised its policies on authorship and aims to develop quality checks that would help editors to identify potential signs of misconduct.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Recommended reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/what-causes-peer-review-scams-and-how-can-they-be-prevented\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">What causes peer review scams and how can they be prevented?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/springer-retracts-64-papers-from-its-journals-alleging-fake-reviews\/\">Springer retracts 64 papers from its journals alleging fake reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/stolen-identities-what-authors-can-learn-from-the-case-of-sages-mass-retraction\/\">Stolen identities? What authors can learn from the case of SAGE&#8217;s mass retraction<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 1, Springer Nature announced that Springer and BioMed Central have decided to retract a total of 58 articles published by Iran-based authors across seven journals. The publisher received allegations of plagiarism, following which an investigation was conducted. 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