The October 2023 paper, "Prediction of Weaning Outcome from Mechanical Ventilation Using Ultrasound Assessment of Parasternal Intercostal Muscle Thickness", was originally published in the Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine (IJCCM). The undated retraction statement says the authors "wish to withdraw the article … due to major errors in data". The DOI no longer links to the article, and the full text is no longer available online.
A researcher in India has asked a journal to amend a retraction "for major errors in data" because, he says, the data weren’t wrong – they were stolen. In the editorial, Kannan said the IJCCM study contained the "exact same data of the thesis including demographic characters, baseline data, and the primary and secondary objectives". He noted his study findings were presented at the EuroAsia 2022 conference.
Ramaswamy and his co-authors responded to the editorial in April 2024: "We appreciate their engagement with our study and welcome further discussion", the response reads. When asked why the journal decided to publish the letter but not update the retraction notice, Prashant Kaushik, managing editor of IJCCM, told he was "looking into this and will keep you posted" but did not respond to repeated follow-up attempts.
