The publisher of Journal of Health Organization and Management wishes to retract the article Tobar CIV, Escandon-Barbosa D, Salas-Paramo J, Giménez V (2025), “Efficiency dynamics in Latin American healthcare reforms: a comprehensive growth mixture analysis within institutional theory”. J Health Organ Manag, Vol. 39 No. 9 pp. 158-176, doi: Link to the DOI. It has come to our attention that the following papers referenced throughout the text are anomalous and inappropriate, or are fundamentally incorrect, hallucinated, and unverifiable:
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The authors cooperated with the investigation but were unable to provide sufficient justification for the presence of these references in the article; the authors acknowledged, however, that the identified references should not be relied upon in their current published form. As a result, the journal no longer has confidence in the integrity and reliability of this article. Emerald's author guidelines and publishing ethics policies make it clear that authors bear full responsibility for checking the accuracy of references and must have consulted the works referenced to ensure their validity and alignment with the research being presented. The decision to retract has been informed by COPE's guidelines on retractions and Emerald's publishing ethics. The authors of this article would like to note that they do not agree with the content of this notice and wish to emphasize that these errors are the result of a technical problem linked to the handling of bibliographic records and metadata. The publisher of the journal sincerely apologizes to the readers.
