Retraction Note

Kowsar Publishing Company Legal Department in accordance with ethics committee of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences (on behalf of editorial board of Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology – JJM) and ethics committee of Iranian Hospital in Dubai (on behalf of editorial board of Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal – IRCMJ) investigated several cases of authorship manipulations and illegal guest and gift authorship cases in 13 published (12 articles in Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal (IRCMJ) and 1 article in Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology (JJM), full list is in Table 1) and 52 accepted (but not published, Table 2) articles.The mentioned group decided to retract published items from journals and also stop the publishing process of other 52 articles and withdraw them from both journal websites. The decision was made after a close investigation about the evidences from some authors about alterations of manuscript files without journal’s permission. Based on the legal procedures, journals retracted/withdrew them from publication. Furthermore, we notified COPE, committee of publication ethics about this authorship manipulation and sent them the complete list of retracted articles. We also keep the rights for our journals and their editorial board members to follow this case legally. Because of this scientific misconduct, we changed a few of our authorship changes rules and regulations. The letter with complete list of changes might be found in publisher website, in the link below:

(link: http://kowsarpub.com/en/index.php/events/news/842-no-authorship-changes-after-accept)

We, Kowsar Publishing Company, completely understand our huge duty on keeping the safety of science world and publishing environment and will follow all next coming suspicious cases to guarantee that nothing same will happen again. A complete list of the articles and authors might be found from the Tables 1 and 2.