The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

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Article retraction practice

In 2004, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery published a study comparing two heart drugs. In January 2011, the journal retracted the study. The journal's editor-in-chief, L. Henry Edmunds, was contacted by Retraction Watch to get details about the cause of the article retraction. Edmunds replied that journalists and bloggers need not discuss article retraction and that it was sufficient for the public to know that the article had been retracted. Edmunds went on to say that the reasons why a journal might retract an article are personal in the same way that the reasons for a marital divorce are. [1]

In 2012, the journal retracted a paper by Paolo Macchiarini, the senior author, for scientific misconduct after it was found that a table had been copied from another paper without citation. [2]

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References

  1. Ben Goldacre (15 January 2011). "Now you see it, now you don't: why journals need to rethink retractions". The Guardian . Retrieved 15 January 2011.
  2. Gonfiotti, Alessandro; Jaus, Massimo Osvaldo; Barale, Daniel; Baiguera, Silvia; Polizzi, Leonardo; Jungebluth, Philipp; Paoletti, Matteo; Pistolesi, Massimo; Macchiarini, Paolo (December 2012). "Retraction notice to "Development and Validation of a New Outcome Score in Subglottic Stenosis"". The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 94 (6): 2184. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.10.030. ISSN   0003-4975. PMID   23316495.
  3. "Editorial Board: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery".