Thyroid officially retracts the published article by Momčilović B, Prejac J, Višnjević V, Skalnaya MG, Mimica N, Drmić S, Skalny AV entitled, Hair Iodine for Human Status Assessment, from Thyroid 24(6);2014:1018–1026; (doi: 10.1089/thy.2012.0499), based on the discovery of prior redundant publication in two other journals, without any cross referencing:
Momčilović B, Prejac J, Višnjević V, Skalnaya MG, Mimica N, Drmić S, Skalny AV. Hair iodine for human iodine status assessment. J Orthomol Med. 2013;28(4)175–185.
Prejac J, Višnjević V, Drmić S, Skalny AA, Mimica N, Momčilović B. A novel concept to derive iodine status of human populations from frequency distribution properties of a hair iodine concentration. J Trace Elem Med Biol. 2014;28(2):205–211.
The editorial leadership of the two journals named above have been notified.
It is important to note that Dr. Momčilović and his coauthors appealed the Editor's decision to retract this article based on their belief that the information contained in the article should be “widely heralded and promoted.” However, as this premise is in direct violation of Thyroid's strict policy on publishing papers that have not been published elsewhere, the appeal was denied.
Thyroid is dedicated to upholding the strictest standards of peer review and the scientific record and therefore is officially retracting this article from the literature.