Retraction notice to “Linking gut microbiota to aging process: A new target for anti-aging” [Food Sci. Hum. Wellness 7 (2) (2018) 111–119]

Maoyang Lu, Zhao Wang

MOE Key Laboratory of Protein Sciences, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, PR China

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor.

The authors have plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared in Microbiome, 2017, 5(1):80, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-017-0296-0. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.