It is reported that Robin, who is studying for a doctorate in medicine in Europe, told the world that springer's retraction was not aimed at the falsification of the final paper, but at the falsification of peer review. In English, these two behaviors can correspond to "fraud" and "misconduct" respectively, and the latter is less serious than the former.

"At present, China is too tolerant of academic misconduct. After discovering misconduct, it will be affected when applying for some project funds. " Robin said that in this European university where he studied, once there is academic misconduct, no matter how high his academic achievements are, there is a high probability that he will be directly dismissed.

Butler said that people are under pressure to publish articles, not only in China, but all over the world. As a result, many third-party organizations providing paper language services for non-native English speakers came into being. "But in China, there is some evidence that third-party organizations providing so-called language editing services have played a role in manipulating the censorship process."

He said that at present, they have no more details about third-party institutions and are under investigation. We contacted the reporter of each article and asked him to inform all other authors. Some people apologized, while others provided information about the assistance provided by third-party organizations. "

When talking about possible "punishment", Butler said that the purpose of withdrawing the manuscript is to correct the published scientific records, not to punish the author. "We know the importance of publishing articles to the career, funding and reputation of researchers. We hope to cooperate with the authors and their organizations to raise awareness of prevention, so that the authors' scientific research achievements can be evaluated in a standardized way in the process of perfect peer review. "