A research paper by Gao Bulang, a professor of neurosurgery at Shijiazhuang People's Hospital and a master's supervisor, as the corresponding author was withdrawn.
The patient's medical data in the paper came from others? Of the 4 papers written by Gao Bulang, a professor of neurosurgery at Shijiazhuang People's Hospital and a postgraduate supervisor, as the corresponding author or other signed authors, 3 papers were withdrawn, and 1 paper was issued an "Editor's Concern Statement".
On August 4, the international academic journal "World Neurosurgery" (World Neurosurgery) issued two identical retraction statements online, saying that it published a paper containing relevant patient medical data because it had no medical authority. It is located in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. Two research papers from the First Municipal Hospital (now Shijiazhuang Municipal People's Hospital, People's Hospital Affiliated to Hebei Medical University) were withdrawn.
The aforementioned retraction statement stated, "The editor-in-chief was informed by Tufts Medical Center that the authors of this article did not have clinical privileges (Clinical privileges) for these patients, nor did they play a clinical role in their treatment." "In the article Data and graphs were obtained from patients cared for by Dr. Malek in the Cerebrovascular Hemodynamics Laboratory of Neurosurgery at Tufts Medical Center."
The corresponding authors of the aforementioned two retracted papers are both Gao Bulang, and the signing unit is the Neurosurgery Department of Shijiazhuang People's Hospital.
According to the official website of Shijiazhuang People's Hospital, Gao Bulang was a postdoctoral fellow and researcher at Tufts University Medical Center in the United States.
According to the official website of Tufts Medical Center, the center is the main teaching hospital of Tufts University School of Medicine in the United States.
In addition, about two years ago, the aforementioned academic journal retracted another paper signed by Gao Bolang for almost the same reason. But Gao Bulang is not the corresponding author of the paper, but the second author. The corresponding author of the paper is Li Conghui, and its signature unit is the Neurosurgery Department of the First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, which is not the same hospital as Gao Bulang. But the two units are both located in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province.
Clinical privileges, according to publicly available sources, are “authorizations granted by the hospital’s governing body to provide specific patient care services within clearly defined limits, based on qualifications reviewed during the credentialing process.”
In other words, the signed authors of the aforementioned two papers did not have the authority to provide medical services for the relevant patients, but obtained the data, wrote and published research papers.
At present, the website of the journal "World Neurosurgery" (World Neurosurgery) involved has removed (removed) the aforementioned two papers, making it impossible to view the text of the papers and other content. Other academic journals often continue to retain relevant paper content and publication records when withdrawing manuscripts, but add words such as "retracted" to each page of the paper.
The titles of the aforementioned two retracted papers were "Enlarged anterior cerebral artery bifurcation angles may induce abnormally enhanced hemodynamic stress" (Enlarged anterior cerebral artery bifurcation angles may induce abnormally enhanced hemodynamic stresses to initiate aneurysms) and The Optimality Principle Decreases Hemodynamic Stresses for Aneurysm Initiation at Anterior Cerebral Artery Bifurcations. The former was published online on August 31, 2018, and the latter was published online on September 26, 2018.
The "Statement of Conflict of Interest" marked at the bottom of the web pages of the aforementioned two deleted papers and other content all mentioned that the research was supported by the "Hundred Talents Program" of Hebei Province (approval number: E2014100010) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (approval number : 81271575) was partially funded by the project.
Gao Bulang is one of the participants of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (approval number: 81271575).
According to the relevant website of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the project with the approval number 81271575 is "Study on the Hemodynamic Mechanism of Cerebral Aneurysm Occurrence by Computational Fluid Dynamics Based on Three-dimensional Cerebral Artery Image". The project received a funding of 600,000 yuan. The project is supported by Shanghai Jiaotong University. The project research started on January 1, 2013 and ended on December 31, 2016. Gao Bulang is one of the project participants.
In addition, on October 27, 2021, the aforementioned academic journal also retracted another paper signed by Gao Braang for almost the same reason.
The related retraction stated, "At the request of the editor-in-chief, this article has been retracted because it contains data and data from patients cared for by Dr. It is understood that Dr. Gao had no clinical privileges during his time at Tufts Medical Center and did not have any clinical role in the care of Dr. Malik's patients."
In this paper, Gao Bulang is not the corresponding author, but the second signed author, but he is the "protagonist" who has withdrawn the statement. The title of the paper involved is "Endovascular Stent Deployment in the Management of Lesions Related to Internal Carotid Artery Redundancy" (Endovascular Stent Deployment in the Management of Lesions Related to Internal Carotid Artery Redundancy), online on May 28, 2018 published.
The international academic journal "Scientific Reports" (Scientific Reports) issued an "Editor's Concern Statement" for the papers that Gao Fulang served as the corresponding author.
On January 14, 2022, the international academic journal "Scientific Reports" (Scientific Reports) aimed at another paper "Asymmetrical Middle Cerebral Artery Bifurcations Are More Likely to Form Aneurysms" (Asymmetrical middle cerebral artery bifurcations) by Gao Bulang as the corresponding author Artery bifurcations are more vulnerable to aneurysm formation) published an "editorial statement of concern" online, saying, "There is concern that the imaging data presented in the article came from a patient database at a different institution than that described in the article. The authors provided raw data, but the editors were unable to communicate with the The agency verified the sources of these data. Therefore, the editor advises readers to be cautious in interpreting the data presented in the article. Xue-Jing Zhang, Wei-Li Hao, Dong-Hai Zhang, and Gao Bulang disagree with this statement.”
According to the official website of Shijiazhuang People's Hospital, Gao Bulang, male, is a professor and a supervisor of postgraduate students. His research interests include neurointerventional radiology, cerebral artery stenting, hemodynamics, and aneurysm pathogenesis.
From August 11th to 15th, The Paper contacted the relevant departments of Shijiazhuang People's Hospital many times, but failed to contact the relevant person in charge for comment.
