The International Wound Journal has retracted 242 papers so far this year as part of an ongoing investigation into manipulated peer review. All the retraction notices list manipulated peer review and share similar text, like the notice from this retraction of a 2023 paper: "Following an investigation by the publisher, all parties have concluded that this article was accepted solely on the basis of a compromised peer review process. The editors have therefore decided to retract the article." Nearly 80 percent of the notices stated the authors did not respond to the notice regarding retraction, with 15 percent of authors disagreeing with the retraction.
The journal became open access in 2021. In a 2023 editorial marking the journal’s 20th birthday, editors noted "submission volumes have increased exponentially". The papers retracted to date were all published from 2022 to 2024.
