WITHDRAWN: Reply to "Smoker, Former Smoker and COVID-19: Nicotine Does Not Protect Against SARS-CoV-2"

Jiménez-Ruíz, Carlos A.; López-Padilla, Daniel; Alonso-Arroyo, Adolfo; Aleixandre-Benavent, Rafaél; Solano-Reina, Segismundo; Granda‐Orive, José Ignacio de

doi:10.1016/j.arbr.2021.03.012

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“…For reference, the entirety of the selected papers can be found in Table 1, and their citations are as follows: Ghanchi et al 2020a, b;Elkhouly et al 2020;Mulvey et al 2020;Sun et al 2020;Lu et al 2020;Beato-Víbora 2020;Mehra et al 2020a, b;Mehra et al 2020a, b;Walach et al 2021;Dutta et al 2021;Friedlich et al 2021;Ali et al 2020a, b;Lin 2021;Ali et al 2020a, b;Khalifa et al 2020;Gul et al 2021;Victor 2020a, b;Victor 2020a, b;Colchero et al 2021;Saha et al 2021;Ma et al 2021;Imran et al 2021;Akbar et al 2020;Ferdous et al 2021;Jiménez-Ruiz et al 2021;Savaris et al 2021;Grech 2020a, b;Zago Filho et al 2020;Atangana et al 2021;Mao et al 2021;Fioranelli et al 2020;Deokar et al 2020;Temmerman 2021;Ibrahimagić et al 2021;Saxena 2020;Grech 2020a, b;Din et al 2020;Bae et al 2020;Zeng et al 2020;Funck-Brentano et al 2020;Woodle et al 2021;…”

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Biased, wrong and counterfeited evidences published during the COVID-19 pandemic, a systematic review of retracted COVID-19 papers

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In 2020 COVID-19 led to an unprecedented stream of papers being submitted to journals. Scientists and physicians all around the globe were in need for information about this new disease. In this climate, many articles were accepted after extremely fast peer-reviews to provide the scientific community with the latest discoveries and knowledge. Unfortunately, this also led to articles retraction due to authors’ misconduct or errors in methodology and/or conclusions. The aim of this study is to investigate the number and characteristics of retracted papers, and to explore the main causes that led to retraction. We conducted a systematic review on retracted articles, using PubMed as data source. Our inclusion criteria were the following: English-language retracted articles that reported original data, results, opinions or hypotheses on COVID-19 and Sars-CoV-2. Twenty-seven retracted articles were identified, mainly reporting observational studies and opinion pieces. Many articles published during the first year of the pandemic have been retracted, mainly due to the authors' scientific misconduct. Duplications, plagiarism, frauds and absence of consent, were the main reasons for retractions. In modern medicine, researchers are required to publish frequently, and, especially during situations like the COVID-19 pandemic, when articles were rapidly published, gaps in peer-reviews system and in the path to scientific publication arose.

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