E
ditor-in-Chief of DNA and Cell Biology, Dr. Carol Shoshkes Reiss, received an e-mail on January 11, 2013, alleging that an article that had been published in DNA and Cell Biology was republished several times in other journals. Upon investigation, it was determined beyond the shadow of a doubt that the text, figures, mathematical formulas, and references in the article entitled “DNA and Cell Resonance: Magnetic Waves Enable Cell Communication” by Konstantin Meyl, published in the April 2012 issue of DNA and Cell Biology (31:422–426), were essentially identical to publications in the following issues:
1. The Journal of Cell Communications and Signaling, 2012;6(1):53–58
2. PIERS Proceedings Moscow 2012;997–1000
3. WMSCI 2012 Proceedings 113–117.
The author was immediately notified of this intolerable behavior and of our decision to redact the article. We stand behind this decision to immediately retract the article from DNA and Cell Biology as the Journal firmly upholds the strongest standards of scientific publishing and does not tolerate any impropriety.
