An obstetrician and gynecologist from an Egyptian university has garnered more than a half-dozen retractions so far this year for self plagiarism and problematic data. All 10 of the notices on the articles cite anomalous data or self plagiarism as the reasons for the retractions.

One investigation into a paper published in the European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology resulted in a 2024 retraction after the authors provided the raw data for the study. Three of Ibrahim A Abdelazim’s retracted papers were in Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, published by Springer Nature. According to the retraction notices, the 2022 retraction was for "serious anomalies" in the data, and the 2024 and March 2025 retractions were for self plagiarism.

In 2023, another of Abdelazim’s papers in Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics was retracted, but a correction was issued in 2024 reinstating the paper. In March 2025, the Journal of the Turkish-German Gynecological Association, published by Galenos Publishing, retracted six of Abdelazim’s papers, three for anomalous data. The other three papers were retracted for self plagiarism, with one of the notices stating that "a methodological counterpart of this article was published in another journal shortly thereafter, with overlapping patient recruitment periods between the two studies."

Source https://retractionwatch.com/2025/08/06/biologically-implausible-distributions-and-self-plagiarism-result-in-10-retractions-for-ob-gyn/

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