The following article from Nutrition Reviews titled “Alpha-lipoic acid supplementation and diabetes” by Uma Singh and Ishwarlal Jialal1 published online on 27 October 2008 in the Wiley Online Library (www.wileyonlinelibrary.com), DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2008.00118.x, has been retracted by agreement among the article’s authors, the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Naomi Fukagawa, and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. because segments of unattributed text were found to be identical to those in a previously published article. 2
The authors sincerely regret the unintentional error and welcome this opportunity to correct the scientific record with the following explanation:
In this case, a junior author, who is also a non-native English speaker, was unfamiliar with appropriate referencing procedures for material from online sources and neglected to cite the source in the reference list or to appropriately incorporate the ideas from that source into original text of this review article. Since the source was not cited in the manuscript as it was developed and discussed by the authors, the senior author, Professor Jialal, was unaware that such a breach had occurred.
References
- 1.Singh U, Jialal I. Alpha-lipoic acid supplementation and diabetes. Nutr Rev. 2008;66(11):646–657. doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2008.00118.x. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] [Retracted]
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