The editor-in-chief of a journal updated a retraction notice to acknowledge the data in the paper were "completely plagiarized" following allegations in a letter to the editor. The original retraction, requested by the authors, cited only "major errors in data".
The undated notice was updated January 23, 2025: "Following scrutiny of the article further and other facts brought to the notice of the Indian Journal for Critical Care Medicine (IJCCM), I have decided to change the reason for the retraction. This article is withdrawn after having been found that the data was completely plagiarized (in toto) from the work of another researcher."
According to Sundara Kannan, the researcher mentioned in the notice who wrote the letter to the editor in November 2024, the researchers had plagiarized the data from his 2022 post-graduate thesis. The data were presented at a 2022 conference.
