S. K. Dubey, R. D. Ukawala, D. Jha, “Prescription to over-the-counter movement and its regulations.”
The publisher would like to inform readers the following article has been retracted from publication in Clinical Research and Regulatory Affairs:
S. K. Dubey, R. D. Ukawala, D. Jha, Prescription to over-the-counter movement and its regulations, Clinical Research and Regulatory Affairs, Dec 2012, Vol. 29 (3–4); 57–64
This article has been found to reproduce content to a high degree of similarity from other published works.
The journal contacted the authors to investigate and received responses from R. D. Ukawala and D. Jha on behalf of all authors. It was agreed that several paragraphs of the text in the review article published in Clinical Research and Regulatory Affairs are word-for-word identical to the text published in other publications. Although references to these articles published were included by the authors, taking intact sentences or paragraphs from other published sources to this high extent is against the Journal’ s policy on plagiarism, which can be found on our website: http://informahealthcare.com/userimages/ContentEditor/1255620151092/Authorship_Submissions_Plagiarism_Peer_Review.pdf
S. K. Dubey, R. D. Ukawala, D. Jha offer their sincere apologies to the authors and the publishers of the articles and given the circumstances accept the retraction of this paper.
Clinical Research and Regulatory Affairs published this article in good faith, and on the basis of signed statements of the corresponding author regarding the originality and ethical reliability of their work. The article is withdrawn from all print and electronic editions.
Anna Treadway (Head of Journals Publishing, Informa Healthcare)