After the retractions as a result of fake peer review (amongst others) in 2015 and 2016 that involved Tumor Biology, the decision was made to screen new papers before they are released to production. Based on this extra screening, new names of fake reviewers were detected and in order to clean up our scientific records, we will now start retracting these affected articles.
有趣的是,从2017年起,《Tumor Biology》已由SAGE Publications接管,作为《Tumor Biology》的拥有者,International Society of Oncology and BioMarkers (ISOBM) 在2016年初便接触SAGE,期望更换出版商,以开放获取形式出版。SAGE的发言人表示:SAGE在2016年11月才获悉Springer此次对《Tumor Biology》的清查行动,并于2017年2月底才得知这批撤稿的规模。对于该刊的过去,SAGE并没有作出抱怨,而是更多地展望未来:
SAGE entered into a contract with the society in December 2016 with an agreement that the editorial board would be re-structured and there would be a complete overhaul of the peer review processes of the journal to bring it in line with SAGE practices.