Screen capture of BMJ webpage https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj-2024-083382 Research RETRACTED: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (PREVENT-TAHA8) BMJ 2025; 391 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-083382 Published 29 October 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;391:e083382 This article has corrections, but has also been retracted. Please see: EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial - November 12, 2025 CORRECTION: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (PREVENT-TAHA8) - March 31, 2026 RETRACTION: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (PREVENT-TAHA8) - March 31, 2026 Armin Attar, professor1,Seyed Alireza Mirhosseini, medical doctor1,Ahmad Monabati, professor2 3,Mohammad Kasaei, assistant professor1,Firoozeh Abtahi, associate professor1,Yahya Kiwan, assistant professor4,Massoud Vosough, associate professor5,Negar Azarpira, professor6

📣The [faked] PREVENT-TAHA8 trial paper was #retracted from @bmj.com after 5 long months 😅

🤝 well done @deevybee.bsky.social @steamtraen.eu @sophieehill.bsky.social @wjst.de @ioanaacristea.bsky.social @gidmk.bsky.social P.T. Wilmhurst and anonymous @pubpeer.com users

#ResearchIntegrity 🔍 #FoSci

Publications of Atta reported and retracted, by publisher Publisher Not Retracted || Retracted Elsevier 63 11 Wiley 28 1 MDPI 27 13 Taylor & Francis 20 0 Springer Nature 11 2 ACS 3 7 SC Virtual Company of Physics 8 0 RSC 2 3 SAGE 1 1 Others 4 0 Bentham 1 0 De Gruyter 1 0

Cumulative Hazard of Retraction, by Publisher for Ayman Atta ACS retracted the quickest with all retractions done after 330 days approximately, Wiley and Springer Nature the slowest. Elsevier started late, with a jump around 570 days.

Ayman Atta (KSU🇸🇦, EPRI🇪🇬) has now 38 #SciRetraction which should earn him rank 2️⃣3️⃣ on @retractionwatch.com's leaderboard!🏅
🐌 mean retraction time 413 days😴

🤝Team work with @mumumouse2.bsky.social
@nvitiensis.bsky.social and others ❤️

#ResearchIntegrity 🔍 #ImageForensics #FoSci
#ThisImageIsFine

Just a reminder, we not only wrote about the profiteering nature of the Springer-Nature Discover journal series, but we made a "guess the publisher" game!

hal.science/hal-05113253

Game by @pagomba.bsky.social

pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/

#OpenAccess #AcademicSky #FoSci #MDPI #SciPub

"BMC Genomics wants your money. Study great apes? Get an easy pass through our special issue publication route. We'll peer review it, but implicitly, not as rigorously as we would otherwise."

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

#HonestSci #AcademicSky #FoSci #OpenAccess #ResearchIntegrity

4 more retractions by @acs.org Omega for Prof. Hamad Al-Lohedan from King Saud University, totalling now 29 retractions!🏆

🤝Team work with @mumumouse2.bsky.social
@nvitiensis.bsky.social and other @pubpeer.com contributors ❤️

#ResearchIntegrity 🔍 #ImageForensics #FoSci
#ThisImageIsFine

🤝Team work with @mumumouse2.bsky.social , @nvitiensis.bsky.social and other @pubpeer.com contributors ❤️

#ResearchIntegrity 🔍 #ImageForensics #FoSci
#ThisImageIsFine

Spot on stuff here. Nicely done both. Also a seeming endorsement that paying peer reviewers is worth a shot to salvage peer review as an institution.

My experiences with @biologyopen.bsky.social from @biologists.bsky.social have been very positive so far.

#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky #FoSci

⚠️ NEW blog post: "Access Isn’t Trust" by our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh.

With #AI aggregating research, we have ease of information - but do we trust it?

"...our insights could be built on sand."

🔗 Read her post at the #FoSci Substack: https://ow.ly/ch4N50Yhti3

⚠️ #ICYMI: "Fudging or Fraud? Where Research Misconduct becomes a Crime." #ResearchIntegrity

Dr Brendan Walker-Munro, Assoc. Prof. in Law at Southern Cross University, delves into the legal issues of scientific fraud.

🔗 Read his guest post at the #FoSci Substack: https://ow.ly/Ifl950Y60kt

Fudging or Fraud? Where Research Misconduct becomes a Crime

NEW: Why aren't more researchers facing court for research fraud? #ResearchIntegrity

In this guest post, Assoc. Prof. in Law Dr Brendan Walker-Munro (Southern Cross University) explains the legal issues & potential remedies.

🔗 Read his post at the #FoSci Substack: https://ow.ly/qvKZ50Y56me

Publications of Atta reported and retracted, by publisher Publisher Not Retracted || Retracted Elsevier 71 3 Wiley 28 1 MDPI 31 9 Taylor & Francis 20 0 Springer Nature 11 2 ACS 3 7 SC Virtual Company of Physics 8 0 RSC 2 3 SAGE 2 0 Others 4 0 Bentham 1 0 De Gruyter 1 0

Ayman Atta (KSU, EPRI) now boasts no less than 25 #SciRetraction! 🍾 Soon entering @retractionwatch.com 's leaderboard!🏅

🤝Team work with @mumumouse2.bsky.social @nvitiensis.bsky.social among many other @pubpeer.com
contributors ❤️

#ResearchIntegrity 🔍 #ImageForensics #FoSci
#ThisImageIsFine

#ICYMI: "Who controls the words controls the narrative. Who controls the narrative controls the minds and culture," writes our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh.

🔗 See her latest #FoSci Substack post, "The Battle for Knowledge": https://ow.ly/3pk150XZAxy

He’s JUST doing this so he can say PISS a lot.

Seriously, great work. #FoSci

PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

PISS is easy to spot & easy to police with special issue tags & editor/author metadata. Journals could include these in xml reported to OpenAlex or CrossREF. Indexers can require them to do so.

Efforts like ours and #ScienceSleuths & #FoSci shouldn't have to be the vehicle for essential data.

14/n

This completely fake university was recently uncovered by @mcintold.bsky.social - it’s fascinating. #FoSci #ResearchIntegrity

⚠️ NEW on the #FoSci Substack: "Rogue Domains: When a University Isn’t a University."

Our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh, delves into the latest of her investigations: a university website & emails that mimic a legitimate university.

🔗 Read now: https://ow.ly/lQyW50XHkpr

That's retraction #22 for VS Aigbodion...

#ResearchIntegrity 🕵️ #FoSci #ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine #DoctoredImage

Doubling down on @steamtraen.eu 's comment. The dataset of this "RCT" shows typical signs of [amateur level] data fabrication. 🥸

@bmj.com the ball is in your court! 🙏

Well spotted @deevybee.bsky.social 🔎
#ResearchIntegrity 🕵️ #FoSci

AI tools tackle paper mill fraud overwhelming peer review With more article submissions and fraudulent activity than ever before, journal peer review processes are creaking under the pressure. Nina Notman discovers how AI and automated tools are taking some ...

Good to know that AI tools can help detecting fraud, but this is not sustainable in the long term. As long as authors are incentivized to publish more and more, the publishing bubble keeps just inflating... 🫧 #SlowScience

#ResearchIntegrity 🕵️ #FoSci

www.chemistryworld.com/features/ai-...

I respectfully disagree! VS Aigbodion should definitely invite me: I'm helping him becoming famous! 😁

Retraction # 1️⃣9️⃣...

#ResearchIntegrity 🕵️ #ImageForensics #FoSci #ThisImageIsFine

📣 NEW: "Questionable Research with High-Profile Attention."

This guest post by Altmetric Product Manager Federica Silvi discusses the real-world consequences of #ResearchIntegrity cases.

🔗 Discover more at the Forensic Scientometrics #FoSci Substack: https://ow.ly/Owhb50Xcl4I

That makes 18 retractions for this fraud addict! 🥸

#ResearchIntegrity 🕵️ #ImageForensics #FoSci #ThisImageIsFine

I must admit that this one was an artwork. No less than 10 image duplications in a single paper! 🥸

This author has published almost 300 papers, of which 185 are problematic, but only 17 retractions, so far... 🐌

#ResearchIntegrity 🕵️ #ImageForensics #FoSci #ThisImageIsFine

The magnificent @deevybee.bsky.social gave a #fosci talk pointing out to the major issue in #scientificpublishing that corporations are desperately trying to ignore — the editors who let all the garbage in their prestigious journals 🎇

+ brilliant term: Negligent Open Access Publisher = NOPE

⚠️ Leslie @mcintold.bsky.social has also written a blog post about the investigation's findings. #ResearchIntegrity

"From Nefarious Networks to Legitimate Funding" - now available to read on the Forensic Scientometrics #FoSci Substack:

🔗 fosci.substack.com/p/from-nefar...

🚨 NEW #FoSci post. "You don't build a mission on duct tape and hope."

Our VP of #ResearchIntegrity, Dr Leslie McIntosh @mcintold.bsky.social, reflects on almost a year of Forensic Scientometrics and its discussion of trust in science & research.

🔗 Read now: fosci.substack.com/p/beyond-duc...

Beyond Duct Tape: Forensics, Fixes, and the Future of Science A look back on (almost) a year of FoSci

Duct tape famously brought the Apollo 13 astronauts home alive – but you don't build a mission on duct tape and hope.
As Forensic Scientometrics nears its one-year mark, here’s a look at the ideas, cases, and solutions.

#FoSci #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchSecurity
open.substack.com/pub/fosci/p/...

Ayman Atta (KSU, EPRI) has earned 5 more #SciRetraction, all from ‪ACS Omega! 👍Kudos to @acs.org @pubs.acs.org

🤝Team work with @mumumouse2.bsky.social Sylvain Bernès @elisabethbik.bsky.social and anonymous @pubpeer.com contributors ❤️

#ResearchIntegrity 🔍 #ImageForensics #FoSci
#ThisImageIsFine

⚠️ This new blog post issues a warning: Co-authors Federica Silvi & Leslie McIntosh @mcintold.bsky.social use @altmetric.com to investigate how questionable articles can move into Wikipedia and news outlets without notice.

🔗 See more at the #FoSci Substack: fosci.substack.com/p/research-a...

🚨 NEW: "Doctored Knowledge." Scientific sleuth René Aquarius co-authors with our VP of #ResearchIntegrity, Leslie McIntosh, on how manipulated images in scientific papers can feed #AI & amplify harm.

🔗 See more on the #FoSci Substack: fosci.substack.com/p/doctored-k...

@mcintold.bsky.social