Retraction Watch: Journal goes dark after impersonating Eric Topol and others

SNT Gatchaman

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https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04...g-media-journal-digital-health-impersonation/

(ft. T. Davenport)

Within hours of researchers from prestigious institutions discovering they were listed as authors on a fabricated paper, the website for the journal and publisher has been taken down.

Cardiologist Eric Topol, the executive vice president of Scripps Research, posted on X yesterday that his name appeared on a “fraudulent” paper published in the so-called Journal of Digital Health Implementation. He suspected the article, dated March 29 and titled “Implementation Science for AI Integration in Digital Health Systems,” was AI-generated.

Ellinger Publishing claimed to be a U.K. publishing company but does not appear in the U.K. business registry. The listed address is a coworking space in London.

The DOI for the paper links to Zenodo, an open repository. The Zenodo page associated with the paper was removed for copyright infringement.

 
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