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The General Medical Council (GMC) plans to appeal against a tribunal’s finding that a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist’s fitness to practise is not currently impaired, although six years ago he removed two patients’ ovaries without consent and on multiple occasions examined patients without a chaperone.In February a medical practitioner tribunal decided1 that Ali Shokouh-Amiri was guilty of misconduct over the incidents, which happened in 2017 and 2018. At the time he was employed by the Medical Specialist Group in Guernsey, becoming a partner in 2017, and was head of gynaecological oncology at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital. But the tribunal “considered that Dr Shokouh-Amiri has shown good insight into his failures which has developed over the last six years and that he has put in place procedures and actions to address his failings and to ensure they do not happen again,” said the legally qualified chair, Stephen Gowland.Shokouh-Amiri faced a catalogue...

by Christine Laine, Dianne Babski, Vivienne C. Bachelet, Till W. Bärnighausen, Christopher Baethge, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Frank Frizelle, Laragh Gollogly, Sabine Kleinert, Elizabeth Loder, João Monteiro, Eric J. Rubin, Peush Sahni, Christina C. Wee, Jin-Hong Yoo, Lilia Zakhama

In this Editorial, representatives of the International Committee of Medical Editors discuss the need for multi-stakeholder involvement to recognize and counter the actions of predatory journals.