Acupotomy Improves Synovial Hypoxia, Synovitis and Angiogenesis in KOA Rabbits [Retraction]

Guo Y, Xu Y, He M, et al. J Pain Res. 2023;16:749—760.

We, the Editor in Chief and Publisher of the Journal of Pain Research have retracted the published article.

After publication, concerns have been raised by a third party about the integrity of the data in Figure 4 of the article.

Further investigations conducted by the Journal and Publisher confirmed duplicate image panels representative of different treatment conditions present in Figure 4A of the article.

When approached for an explanation, the authors have cooperated with the investigation and provided their raw data. However, upon review of the raw data, additional data integrity concerns were identified in the original Western blot data sent. Further ethical concerns were identified regarding the animal studies conducted. As verifying the validity of published work is core to the integrity of the scholarly record, we are therefore retracting the article. The corresponding author listed in this publication has been informed.

We have been informed in our decision-making by our editorial policies and the COPE guidelines.

The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.