Yasser Fakri Mustafa of the University of Mosul was a coauthor of the newly retracted article, a review of how aerosol boxes affected intubation during the COVID‐19 pandemic. He denied wrongdoing. As stated in the retraction notice, online September 23, 2025, the article’s title matched an authorship ad posted on social media on March 9, 2022, eight months before the paper appeared in Taylor & Francis’ Expert Review of Medical Devices.

In August of this year, Wise, by then a research integrity manager at Taylor & Francis, contacted the authors of the offending article. The corresponding author is Trias Mahmudiono of Universitas Airlangga in Surabaya, Indonesia, who has earned two retractions for violation of authorship policies. He did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Mustafa told that he would like to see a link to the original Facebook post Wise had found, "rather than a screenshot, which can easily be fabricated". He added: "Even if we hypothetically assume the PubPeer allegation to be accurate, the purportedly "offered" positions correspond to the second and fourth authors, whereas my position is the eleventh. This clearly indicates that I did not purchase authorship but contributed within the legitimate writing and review process."

Source https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/14/iraqi-dean-earns-another-retraction-for-paper-posted-for-sale-on-facebook/

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