The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, published by Wiley on behalf of Kaohsiung Hospital in Taiwan, seemed to exhibit some urgency after a sleuth raised concerns in December 2024 about a 2019 paper with problematic figures. The sleuth on PubPeer, had pointed out similarities between the 2019 paper and another article by different authors, published in Oncotarget in 2014.

The journal and publisher retracted the article four months later, on April 8, 2025. The retraction notice cites images that were "found duplicated in other articles published earlier elsewhere, and in some cases representing a different scientific context".

Source  https://retractionwatch.com/2025/05/15/kaohsiung-journal-medical-sciences-wiley-retraction/

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