In the published article, there was an error in Figure 3 as published. “Univ Erlangen Nurnberg”, “Friedrich Alexander Univ Erlan” and “Univ Klinikum Erlangen” were regarded as three independent institutions in our data analysis, but actually they are the same institution “Friedrich Alexander Univ Erlan”. The corrected Figure 3 combines the data of “Univ Erlangen Nurnberg”, “Friedrich Alexander Univ Erlan” and “Univ Klinikum Erlangen” and its caption “Analysis of NETs-related institutions” appear below.
Figure 3.
Analysis of NETs-related institution. (A) Analysis of collaborative network visualization of institutions in VOSviewer. The figure shows the institutions with more than 5 documents. The nodes of different colors represent the institutions of different clusters, and the size of the nodes indicates the frequency of their occurrence. (B) Analysis of the number of articles published by institutions in recent years. The recent 5 years heat value of each institution is obtained by dividing the number of publications in recent 5 year by the total number of publications.
In the published article, there was an error in
Table 3 as published. Table 3 , Rank 2, Martin Herrmann’s institution is University Hospital Würzburg (Germany). The correct institution should be University Hospital Erlangen (Germany). The corrected Table 3 and its caption “Top 10 authors in terms of number of publications, the corresponding institutions and total link strength” appear below.
Table 3.
Top 10 authors in terms of number of publications, the corresponding institutions and total link strength.
| Rank | Author | Publications | Institutions | Total link Strength |
| 1 | Kaplan, Mariana J. | 67 | National Institutes of Health(USA) | 247 |
| 2 | Herrmann, Martin | 51 | University Hospital Erlangen(Germany) | 361 |
| 3 | Knight, Jason S. | 49 | University of Michigan(USA) | 257 |
| 4 | Von Koeckritz-Blickwede, Maren | 47 | University of Veterinary Medicine(Germany) | 149 |
| 5 | Nizet, Victor | 41 | University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy(USA) | 112 |
| 6 | Wagner, Denisa D. | 36 | Boston Children’s Hospital(USA) | 136 |
| 7 | Hermosilla, Carlos | 32 | Justus Liebig University(Germany) | 129 |
| 8 | Taubert, Anja | 32 | Justus Liebig University(Germany) | 134 |
| 9 | Nakazawa, Daigo | 31 | Hokkaido University(Japan) | 166 |
| 10 | Ritis, Konstantinos | 31 | Democritus University of Thrace(Greece) | 191 |
In the published article, there was an error. Professor Martin Herrmann’s institution is wrong.
A correction has been made to Results, Distribution of authors, Paragraph 1. This sentence previously stated:
“The author with the highest number of publications is Kaplan Mariana J. (National Institutes of Health, USA) (67), followed by Herrmann Martin (University Hospital Würzburg, Germany) (51), Knight Jason S. (University of Michigan, USA) (49) and Maren von Köckritz-Blickwede (University of Veterinary Medicine, Germany) (47).”
The corrected sentence appears below:
“The author with the highest number of publications is Kaplan Mariana J. (National Institutes of Health, USA) (67), followed by Herrmann Martin (University Hospital Erlangen, Germany) (51), Knight Jason S. (University of Michigan, USA) (49) and Maren von Köckritz-Blickwede (University of Veterinary Medicine, Germany) (47).”
The authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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