Things Fall Apart: A Look at Retractions in Gastroenterology

According to the Retraction Watch database (retractiondatabase.org), journals have retracted roughly 280 papers covering topics in gastroenterology, involving approximately 1,530 authors, which works out to about five authors per paper. At least 92 authors have two or more retractions, but the greatest number (eight) falls not to a gastroenterologist but to an anesthesiologist, Yoshitaka Fujii, MD, from Japan. Dr. Fujii holds the record for most retractions by single author with more than 180,