Decade-old image duplication concerns remain unaddressed in Elsevier's Cytokine journal

Summary

The author describes screening 20,000 biomedical articles for image duplication around 2014-2015, finding 782 papers (about 4%) with inappropriate duplications. This work was published in mBio in 2016. However, a decade later, many of these problematic papers remain unaddressed by the journals that published them. The author specifically calls out Cytokine, an Elsevier journal, for failing to address concerns that go far beyond innocent errors, questioning the scientific self-correction process.

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