Statement of Retraction: Ortendahl M, Näsman P. “Quitting smoking is perceived to have an effect on somatic health among pregnant and non-pregnant women”

Abstract

The Editors and Publisher would like to inform the readers the following article has been retracted from publication in The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine:

Ortendahl M, Näsman P. Quitting smoking is perceived to have an effect on somatic health among pregnant and non-pregnant women. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2008;21:239–246. (doi:10.1080/14767050801924829).

This article has been found to reproduce content to a high degree of similarity, without appropriate attribution or acknowledgement by the authors, from the following original article:

Ortendahl M, Näsman P. Perception of Smoking-Related Health Consequences among Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Women. Am J Addict. 2007;16:521--527. (doi:10.1080/10550490701643088)

The text in the manuscript published in The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine was found to be almost word-for-word identical to the text published in the American Journal of Addictions. The data presented in all 4 tables is also essentially the same, but just presented in a different layout.

The authors have been fully co-operative with our investigations and agree with the Editors and Publisher on this course of action to correct the redundancy in the literature record.

The journal’s policy in this respect is clear: The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere.

The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine published this article in good faith, and on the basis of signed statements made by the corresponding author regarding the originality of their work. The article is withdrawn from all print and electronic editions.

Gian Carlo Di Renzo and Dev Maulik

(Editors-in-Chief)

Anna Treadway

(Head of Journals Publishing, Informa Healthcare)

This article refers to:

RETRACTED: Quitting smoking is perceived to have an effect on somatic health among pregnant and non-pregnant women