Moon Hyung-in


Moon Hyung-In is a professor at Dong-A University in Busan, South Korea. He is a member of the Department of Medicinal Biotechnology, and he earned his PhD in the Department of Pharmacy at Sungkyunkwan University in 2001.
Moon was discovered in 2012 to have published a number of articles in academic journals by writing the peer review reports for them himself. He submitted manuscripts to journals that allowed authors to suggest their own reviewers: he used false names and email addresses that he controlled, and he then submitted his own reviews. The articles were subsequently retracted when the nature of his submissions was discovered; he reportedly acknowledged falsifying data in his papers.

List of retracted articles

; Pharmaceutical Biology
; Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry
; International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition
  • Retracted Paper: International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition 2012; 63: 537–547, doi: 10.3109/09637486.2011.607801
  • Retracted Paper: International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition 2011; 62: 102–105, doi: 10.3109/09637486.2010.513682
  • Retracted Paper: International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition 2011; 62: 215–218, doi: 10.3109/09637486.2010.503187
; The Journal of Ethnopharmacology
  • Retracted Paper: Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2005; 97: 21: Pages 567–571, doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2005.01.006
; FEBS Letters
  • Retracted Paper: FEBS Letters 2006; 580: 769–774, doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.12.094
; Phytotherapy Research
  • Phytotherapy Research 2006; 20: 714-716, doi 10.1002/ptr.1941
  • Phytotherapy Research 2005; 19: 239–242, doi 10.1002/ptr.1682

Additional list of 20 more retracted papers

The list of these papers has been reported on Retraction Watch.