Moayad Alqurashi, an infectious diseases specialist at King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital in Saudi Arabia, was the lead author on a 2021 case report published in Cureus about a patient who came to the emergency room with rapid vision loss. In 2023, while a reviewer for Skin Health and Disease, a Wiley title, Moayad Alqurashi was invited to assess a report similar to the case he had written about. He said he notified the journal of similarities between the two cases, and the journal never published the report. The authors of that article had seen the same patient as part of a different department.

But in March 2024 Alkhayal’s write-up of the same patient appeared in Oxford Medical Case Reports (OMCR). Both the OMCR and Cureus papers claim they are the first reported case. Oxford University Press confirmed to us that OMCR was made aware of potential similarities between the two case reports. “In 2024 the journal’s editorial team investigated and determined, while it is possible that the cases concern the same patient, the figures used in [the OMCR report] are original, the antibiotic treatments described in the two cases are different, and the two case reports are based upon separate examinations and treatments,” the spokesperson said.

Source https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04/29/researcher-claims-his-case-report-was-stolen-by-someone-else-at-his-hospital/

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