PLOS One published a brief correction clarifying an author name error in an earlier research article. The notice states that the 11th author’s name was misspelled in the original publication and that the correct name is Kenneth W. Harder. The correction is limited to the author list; the notice does not present any altered experimental data or revisions to the study’s scientific content.
The correction references the original research article as: Hamden JE, Ainsworth-Cruickshank G, Gray KM, Ye J, Kachkovski GV, Forys BJ, et al. The parental intestinal microbiome modulates systemic and local glucocorticoid levels in neonatal mice. PLoS One. 2026;21(9):e0357469. The correction itself is cited as Hamden JE, Ainsworth-Cruickshank G, Gray KM, Ye J, Kachkovski GV, Forys BJ, et al. (2026) Correction: The parental intestinal microbiome modulates systemic and local glucocorticoid levels in neonatal mice. PLoS One 21(10): e0361477. A DOI is provided for the correction notice in the published record.
The single, explicit change documented in the notice is the corrected spelling of an author’s name to Kenneth W. Harder. The notice contains no statement indicating corrections to data, analyses, figures, tables, experimental methods, or conclusions. The study’s substantive content, as represented in this correction notice, remains unaltered according to the text provided by PLOS One.
The notice did not report any information about whether author-affiliated institutional records, contributor databases, or supplementary files were also updated. It likewise did not report changes to author order or contribution statements. If any further metadata changes were made in databases such as PubMed, Scopus, or institutional repositories, those updates are not documented in this correction text.
Accurate author names are essential for correct attribution, literature searches, and bibliometric tracking. The correction will help ensure that the author now identified as Kenneth W. Harder receives proper credit in citation indices and that searches for his work return this article. Bibliographic databases that harvest publisher metadata should receive the corrected record through standard update mechanisms, but individual researchers and reference managers may need to refresh or reimport the citation to capture the change.
This notice does not state whether downstream services have already synchronized the corrected author metadata. The PLOS One correction itself provides an official record that indexing services and institutional repositories can cite when reconciling author name discrepancies.
PLOS One confirmed the correction is published under the Creative Commons Attribution License. The notice reiterates that the article and correction are open access, permitting reuse and redistribution provided the original author and source are credited. The correction was published October 23, 2026.
The correction text is concise and narrowly focused on a bibliographic error. The source did not report any experimental or methodological details, dosage information, outcome measures, sample sizes, or other trial elements from the underlying study. It also omitted whether author contribution or conflict-of-interest statements were changed. Readers seeking substantive results from the study will need to consult the original research article (PLoS One. 2026;21(9):e0357469). The correction provides no further amendments to the scientific record beyond the corrected author name.
References
Reference as listed in the correction notice: Hamden JE, Ainsworth-Cruickshank G, Gray KM, Ye J, Kachkovski GV, Forys BJ, et al. The parental intestinal microbiome modulates systemic and local glucocorticoid levels in neonatal mice. PLoS One. 2026;21(9):e0357469. pmid:42776988
Correction citation: Hamden JE, Ainsworth-Cruickshank G, Gray KM, Ye J, Kachkovski GV, Forys BJ, et al. (2026) Correction: The parental intestinal microbiome modulates systemic and local glucocorticoid levels in neonatal mice. PLoS One 21(10): e0361477.
Limitations
This article is derived exclusively from the PLOS One correction notice. The notice contains only bibliographic correction information and does not supply experimental findings, methods, or outcomes from the underlying study. Any clinical or preclinical interpretation of the original research must be based on the full original article rather than on this correction document.