Seven research papers and one editorial submitted in response to a call for papers on and published in a topic collection ‘Genomic aspects of cancer immunotherapy: Challenges and clinical implications’ in the Journal of Medical Genetics are retracted
The journal investigated possible issues with peer review and editorial assessment of these papers. The articles were investigated together because there was concern about almost all of the content in the collection.
During the peer review and editorial assessment of the work, the guest editors selected the reviewers. The majority of the reviewers and guest editors were at Nanjing University. There was evidence of improbable device use in many articles, and compromised peer review in almost all articles.
The current Editor-in-Chief judges that the collection is out of scope for the journal, and so it…