Correction to: Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation

Area of Science:

• Bibliometrics
• Scholarly Publishing

Background:

• Accurate author affiliations are crucial for establishing scientific credibility and ensuring proper attribution.
• Inaccurate metadata can hinder the discoverability and citation tracking of scholarly works.

Purpose of the Study:

• To identify and report an inadvertent error in author affiliations within a published book.
• To ensure the integrity of scholarly records by correcting metadata inaccuracies.

Main Methods:

• Review of the book's contributor list.
• Examination of the metadata associated with chapter 12.

Main Results:

• The affiliation for authors Katherine B. Henke, Rachel M. Miller, Rachel A. Knoener, Mark Scalf, Michele Spiniello, and Lloyd M. Smith was incorrectly listed.
• The error was present in both the front matter (FM) contributor list and the metadata for chapter 12.

Conclusions:

• The published book contains an error in author affiliation details.
• Correction of this metadata is necessary for accurate author attribution and scholarly record-keeping.