The quotation distorts Thorndike’s recommendations for managing ongoing participation in contact sport after concussion, which McCrory used to support his stance in the article. In the other retracted article McCrory inaccurately quotes and misrepresents the position of Augustus Thorndike, as stated in a 1952 publication. The nine new retractions all concern opinion pieces, commentaries, and editorials of which McCrory is the only author they include five cases of plagiarism and three of redundant publication.

It was prompted by allegations about publication misconduct made by researcher Nick Brown.

The decision to retract these articles came after an internal investigation by BMJ’s research integrity team and the current editor in chief of the British Journal of Sports Medicine. McCrory, currently of the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, Australia, edited the journal between 20, during which time he published at least 164 articles in BMJ journals, most of them in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

These latest retractions follow the retraction earlier this year of an editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, prompted by concerns that the article shared similarities with one written for Physics World. The British Journal of Sports Medicine has retracted nine further non-research articles by its former editor in chief, Paul McCrory, and an “expression of concern” will be placed on 74 others published in BMJ journals that he authored.

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