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Three transplantation papers with podcast published in the June issue

Listen here to the podcast by Mr Mike Silva and Mr Gavin Pettigrew in which they discuss the three transplantation papers published in the June issue of BJS.  All three papers are available for free download. The full table of contents of the June issue can be viewed here.

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Call for Papers: Improving Outcomes in Cancer Surgery

BJS will publish an additional special issue in January 2013 entitled 'Improving outcomes in cancer surgery'.   We are keen to emphasise the role that surgery plays in the management of the cancer patient. Readers who would like to offer material for this issue should prepare papers in the standard BJS style, and submit them to the Journal before 1st June 2012. The papers will be managed via the BJS electronic manuscript handling system, and will be subject to standard peer review. PLEASE STATE YOUR MANUSCRIPT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED FOR THE SUPPLEMENT.

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Snapshots in Surgery Quiz

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The June 2012 issue is now available online featuring three articles on transplantation with an accompanying podcast.

M.S. Qureshi, C.J. Callaghan, J.A. Bradley, C. J. E. Watson and G.J. Pettigrew. Outcomes of simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation from brain-dead and controlled circulatory death donors. Br J Surg 2012; 99: 831-838.  Read here for free.

M. Mallik, C.J. Callaghan, M. Hope, P. Gibbs, S. Davies, A.E. Gimson, W.J. Griffiths and G.J. Pettigrew. Comparison of marginal liver allograft outcomes using either adult split-liver or donation after circulatory death liver transplants. Br J Surg 2012; 99: 839-847.  Read here for free.

K. Bramis, A.N. Gordon-Weeks, P.J. Friend, E. Bastin, A. Burls, M.A. Silva and A.R. Dennison. Systematic review of total pancreatectomy and islet autotransplantation for chronic pancreatitis. Br J Surg 2012; 99: 761-766.  Read here for free.

Joint Editors-in-Chief request for determination regarding papers published by Dr Yoshitaka Fujii

The journal Anaesthesia has published a manuscript by J. B. Carlisle that appears to present overwhelming evidence that the distributions of many variables reported by Dr Yoshitaka Fujii in 168 published trials could not have occurred by chance.  The article can be read here.  Please note that, while the title of the paper states 169 papers, there is one duplicated reference, so the actual number of papers analysed in the manuscript is 168.

BJS has published one of these articles and the European Journal of Surgery, which was incorported by BJS in 2003, published two of these articles.

A letter signed by a number of affected Editors-in-Chief has been sent to the institutions in which Dr Fujii carried out his research.  The letter can be read here.  A statement from the University of Toho, Japan, at which Dr Fujii most recently worked, can be viewed here.  He has been dismissed from post.

We intend to retract the three manuscripts based on the evidence of fraud demonstrated in the analysis by Mr Carlisle.  However, before any retraction is made we are offering institutions the opportunity to attest to the integrity of any manuscript produced under their auspices.

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