RETRACTED: In situ-forming hydrogels for sustained ophthalmic drug delivery

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief.The authors have plagiarized parts of a large number of previously published papers. The three most plagiarized papers are:Adv. Drug Deliv. Rev., 16 (1995) 3–19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0169-409X(95)00010-5.Eur. J. Pharm. Biopharm., 58 (2004) 409–426, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpb.2004.03.019.Adv. Drug Deliv. Rev., 16 (1995) 51–60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0169-409X(95)00015-Y.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.