[4] Tumor Biology's founding editor-in-chief was William H. Fishman (La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation), who edited the journal along with Hidematsu Hirai (Hokkaido University) from 1980 to 1983.

[5] In 1999, von Kleist retired, at which point she was replaced by Torgny Stigbrand (Umea University),[6] who was still the journal's editor as of May 2017.

One scientist, German Nobel laureate Harald zur Hausen, told Science Insider that he did not know he was on the list, and that he did not recall having ever reviewed a paper for the journal.

[7][10] In response, the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China announced that it would investigate the retractions, as all 107 papers were co-authored by Chinese researchers.

[2] In August, Clarivate Analytics announced that articles published in the journal after July 19, 2017, would no longer be included in the Web of Science.