Article title: Effects of Chronic Exposure to 0.5 Hz and 5 Hz Flickering Illumination on the Eye Growth of Guinea Pigs
Authors: Yue Di, Na Lu, Bing Li, Rui Liu, Ren-Yuan Chu, Xing-Tao Zhou & Xiao-Dong Zhou
Journal: Current Eye Research
Bibliometrics: Volume 38, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1182-1190
DOI: 10.3109/02713683.2013.807931
Publisher: Informa Healthcare USA, Inc.
We, the Editors and Publisher of Current Eye Research have been apprised of a question of originality and provenance in the above work, explicit in the failure of the author to cite their previously published work:
“Myopia induced by flickering light in guinea pigs: a detailed assessment on susceptibility of different frequencies” (International Journal of Ophthalmology April 2013, Volume 6, Issue 2, pp 115-119); and “The effect of various levels of stroboscopic illumination on the growth of guinea pig eyes” (Clinical and Experimental Optometry January 2014, Volume 97, Issue 1, pp 55-61).
We note we received and published the work in good faith. We censure the authors for their omission of oversight.