Former British Journal of Sports Medicine editor is subject of a slew of retractions

The British Journal of Sports Medicine has retracted nine further non-research articles by its former editor in chief, Paul McCrory, and an “expression of concern” will be placed on 38 others published in BMJ journals that he authored.These latest retractions follow the retraction earlier this year of an editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, prompted by concerns that the article shared similarities with one written for Physics World.1McCrory, currently of the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, Australia, edited the journal between 2001 and 2008, during which time he published at least 164 articles in BMJ journals, most of them in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.The decision to retract these articles came after an internal investigation by BMJ’s research integrity team and the current editor in chief of the British Journal of Sports Medicine. It was prompted by allegations about publication misconduct made by researcher…
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