Editor-Author Conflict of Interest on 10.1371/journal.pone.0316942

Recent investigation suggests that the handling editor of the article [1] did not disclose his conflict of interest with the author.

The article was co-authored by Dongyeop Kim, Moo-Seok Park, Ju-young Park, and Tae-Jin Song, and was handled by the editor Dong Keon Yon. Investigation finds that Song and Yon co-authored on several article [2-5] within the past 3 years. This may be violation against the policy of the publisher PLoS.



Reference

[1] 10.1371/journal.pone.0316942

[2] 10.1111/jsr.13852

[3] 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16171

[4] 10.26355/eurrev_202102_24862

[5] 10.26355/eurrev_202301_30894






Author: WU Guangheng

Founder and Chair of the 5GH Foundation

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

Document ID: 5GH-WuGH-2025.000010

Publication Date: 2025.01.09

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

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