Yang F, Zhang C, Xu C, Fu F, Han D, Li H. Onco Targets Ther. 2019;12:4415–4426.
The Editor and Publisher of OncoTargets and Therapy wish to retract the published article. Concerns were raised over alleged image duplication in Figures 5C and 7A with similar images from unrelated articles, specifically:
Figure 5C, panel T98 miR-NC appears to have been duplicated with a similar image in Figure 4C from Li et al, 2019 (https://doi.org/10.2147/OTT.S213231).
Figure 7A, appears to have been duplicated with similar images in Figure 8A from Li et al, 2019 (https://doi.org/10.2147/CMAR.S210845).
The authors did not respond to our queries and the Editor determined the findings of the study were no longer valid and advised for the article to be retracted.
Our decision-making was informed by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retraction.
The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.