The article titled “Antidiabetic Properties, Bioactive Constituents, and Other Therapeutic Effects of Scoparia dulcis” [1] was found to contain some material from the following published articles: (i) Paragraph 1: Reuters 2016 [2], uncited and not quoted (ii) Paragraph 2: Li et al., Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2004 [3], uncited and not quoted (iii) Section : Lee et al., Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2010 [4], and Liu et al., Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2011 [5], uncited and not quoted (iv) Section : references 55 and 56, cited but not quoted (v) Section : attributed to reference 65 not reference 71, not quoted (vi) Section : reference 76, cited but not quoted (vii) Section : attributed to references 79–81 not reference 78, not quoted
The authors Geethi Pamunuwa and D. Nedra Karunaratne were unaware of the reuse and agree that a corrigendum is necessary. However, the corresponding author Viduranga Waisundara insists that the reuse is not significant and does not agree to publication of the corrigendum.