Retracted: A Routine Electroencephalography Monitoring System for Automated Sports-Related Concussion Detection

The editorial leadership and publisher of Neurotrauma Reports received a formal letter from the University of Nebraska Institutional Review Board (IRB) Chairperson pertaining to the article entitled, “A Routine Electroencephalography Monitoring System for Automated Sports-Related Concussion Detection,” by Amirsalar Mansouri, Patrick Ledwidge, Khalid Sayood, and Dennis L. Molfese (Epub 22 Dec 2021;9:626-638; DOI: 10.1089/neur.2021.0047) which reported a “…serious noncompliance [of IRB regulations] because the information/data was not properly de-identified and the research should have received IRB approval prior to its conduct.” Dated March 7, 2022, the letter from the university's IRB Chairperson stated that it was, “the assessment of the IRB that the first author was provided a data file that had not been properly de-identified and that the content of the article and supplemental tables published online present a risk for deductive disclosure of respondents.” These findings resulted in the IRB Chairperson's request for a full retraction of the article to which the editors of the journal agreed. The authors were notified by both the University of Nebraska and the publisher of Neurotrauma Reports that the article is officially retracted from the literature. At that time, Dr. Sayood issued an appeal to the university's IRB stating that he believed the determination was made in error. The IRB once again met to review the circumstances and the relevant guidelines pertaining to the use of these data and reached the same conclusion as in their first round of review and notified the publisher on March 29, 2022 to fully retract the article. Neurotrauma Reports is committed to upholding the rigors of scientific publishing and the veracity of the literature and wishes to extend gratitude to the University of Nebraska's Institutional Review Board Chairperson for identifying and reporting this infringement of the proper protocols of subject confidentiality to the editors and publisher of the journal.