Update (October 11): The British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) has retracted nine articles and placed expressions of concern on an additional 38 in which McCrory, who was previously the journal’s editor-in-chief, was the sole author, according to a press release by the journal. In an editorial published by the journal on October 10, high-level staffers of the BJSM and the British Medical Journal (BMJ) say that five retractions were due to plagiarism and three were due to redundant publication. The last article was retracted after McCrory “inaccurately quoted and misrepresented the position” of another researcher as a key support for his argument.
Update (September 26): Concussion expert Paul McCrory has since been accused of 10 additional cases of plagiarism, The Guardian reports. The new incidents, first shared by Nick Brown, a data analyst at Linnaeus University in Sweden, cover papers published between 2001 and 2018 in which McCrory is ...
