Erratum: Trends in Academic "Ghost Publications" in Plastic Surgery Residency Applications: A 3-Year Study: Erratum.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000002617.].

In the article, “Trends in Academic ‘Ghost Publications’ in Plastic Surgery Residency Applications: A 3-year Study,” published 17 January 2020, multiple errors in the data were present in Table 2. The corrected version of Table 2 appears below:

Table 2.

Trend of “Ghost” Publication by Years 2010-2013

Trend of “Ghost” Publication by years 2010-2013*
	Year
Authorship	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	Total
Applicants without “Ghost”	98	85	74	257
Percentage	25%	21.7%	18.9%	65.6%
Applicants with “Ghost”	61	35	39	135
Percentage	15.6%	8.9%	9.9%	34.4%
Total applicants	159	120	113	392
Percentage “Ghost”	40.6%	30.6%	28.8%

*The trend of “ghost” publications did not change significantly through the years (p 0.27).

The incorrect data also appeared once in the abstract of the article and once in the Results section.