International Journal of Endocrinology has retracted the article titled “Sexual Dysfunction in Women with Diabetic Kidney” [1]. The article was found to contain a substantial amount of material from previously published articles, including the following sources:(i)Santoro D., Satta E., Bellinghieri G., (2014), Sexual Dysfunction in Chronic Kidney Disease, Arici M. (eds), In: Management of Chronic Kidney Disease, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54637-2_24, [2] (not cited).(ii)Esposito, Katherine, Maria Ida Maiorino, and Giuseppe Bellastella, “Diabetes and sexual dysfunction: current perspectives,” Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy, 2014, https://doi.org/10.2147/DMSO.S36455, [3] (not cited).(iii)Priya Anantharaman, Rebecca J. Schmidt, “Sexual Function in Chronic Kidney Disease,” Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease, 2007, https://doi.org/10.1053/j.ackd.2007.01.002, [4] (not cited).(iv)F. O. Finkelstein, S. Shirani, D. Wuerth, and S. H. Finkelstein, “Therapy Insight: sexual dysfunction in patients with chronic kidney disease,” Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 200–207, 2007, https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncpneph0438, [5] (cited as reference 6).(v)R. Basson, J. Berman, A. Burnett, et al., “Report of the international consensus development conference on female sexual dysfunction: definitions and classifications,” Journal of Urology, vol. 163, no. 3, pp. 888–893, 2000, https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00005392-200003000-00043, [6] (cited as reference 7).
The authors apologize for this. Our Editorial Board confirmed that the article should be retracted.