On August 9, 2025 just before noon, John Loadsman, an anesthesiologist and journal editor in Australia, reached out to two journals to notify them of image similarities he had flagged on PubPeer. Loadsman asked the authors to clarify the "apparent identity" of a figure in a 2023 paper in Experimental Biomedical Research. The figure resembled one in a different paper by the same authors "representing different experimental conditions", he wrote in his PubPeer comment. The second paper appeared in Wiley’s International Journal of Endocrinology in 2019.

The editor-in-chief of Experimental Biomedical Research, Hayrettin Ozturk, responded to Loadsman 14 hours after his initial email to say he was looking into the article. Just shy of 22 hours after Loadsman’s initial message, Ozturk sent another email saying the paper had been retracted. According to the retraction notice, the duplicated image was "an erroneous presentation due to an inadvertent mistake and technical reasons". So the authors requested the article be withdrawn, the notice states.

Source https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/02/journal-issues-speedy-retraction-in-less-than-a-day-for-inadvertent-mistake/

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