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. 2025 Mar 25;11(9):e43255. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e43255

Retraction notice to "Circular RNA hsa_circ_0005218 promotes the early recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma by targeting the miR-31-5p/CDK1 pathway" [Heliyon 9 (2023) e14816]

Xiao-bo Wang a, Tao Luo a, Shao-long Lu a, Hua-ze Lu a, Tai-yun Zhao c, Zhi-jun Jiang a, Xin-yu Liu a, Chang Zhao b, Le-qun Li a,⁎, Jie Chen a,⁎⁎
PMCID: PMC12134682  PMID: 40535290

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier policy on article withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal).

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor.

Post-publication, an investigation conducted on behalf of the journal by Elsevier's Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics team discovered substantial changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper. During revision, the authors Tai-yun Zhao, Zhi-jun Jiang, Xin-yu Liu, Le-qun Li, and Shao-long Lu were added to the revised paper without adequate explanation. Additionally, three authors were removed during revision. The Editor does not have confidence that all of the stated authors of the article qualify for authorship and has therefore lost confidence in the validity/integrity of the article and made the decision to retract.

The authors have not responded to the retraction notice.


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