Author-Editor Conflict on 10.1371/journal.pone.0299881

UPDATE [2024-07-18]: Recently, the 5GH team received an e-mail from PLoS, stating that this article was retracted due the conflict of interest, and the issue about the ethic approval. The 5GH team appreciate the effort made by the PLoS team to this matter.

Here, we would like to report about the Author-Editor Conflict in a paper [1]:

Title: Epidemiological insights into paratuberculosis in camels in Saudi Arabia: Bayesian estimation of true prevalence and identification of risk factors

Authors: A. Al Naeem, M. Salem, F. Housawi, K. Al-Mohammed Salem, J. Hussen, M. Fayez, A. Zaghawa, P. Kostoulas

Editor: A. K. M. Anisur Rahman

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299881

The editor (Rahman) and one of the authors (Kostoulas) co-authored in 3 papers (2 in PLoS ONE) [2-4] during 2019 and 2024, suggesting the editorship of Rahman was against the policy of PLoS ONE.



Reference

[1] 10.1371/journal.pone.0299881

[2] 10.1371/journal.pone.0262978

[3] 10.1017/S0950268818003503

[4] 10.1371/journal.pone.0247838






Author: WU Guangheng

Founder and Chair of the 5GH Foundation

E-Mail: wu@5gh.org.cn

Document ID: 5GH-WuGH-20240321.001

Publication Date: 2024.03.21

This article is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License

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