Retraction notice

The research article entitled “Incidence and Assessment of Adverse Drug Reactions at a Tertiary Care Hospital” by Priyanka et al., Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Community Medicine. 2020;6(1). DOI:10.5530/jppcm.2020.1.5^[1] is retracted.

After the above article was published, one of the readers reported that the authors had published the same article in the World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research. 2017 Aug 6;6(12):967-8.^[2]

The Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Community Medicine (JPPCM) journal further investigated the publication in the World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and found that the afore mentioned manuscript was self-plagiarized with a same title. The corresponding author and others of the manuscript was contacted by JPPCM journal for clarification, and they responded it is unknowingly plagiarised.

The JPPCM journal editors have further investigated and thus agreed that Priyanka et al., violated the journal policy and the self-plagiarized manuscript be retracted from the JPPCM website. JPPCM’ decision will be communicated to the corresponding author of the manuscript Priyanka et al., and others, INDIA.

Akram Ahmad, PhD Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Community Medicine.