TY - JOUR
T1 - Retraction notice to “A sustainable approach for the multi-dimensional exploitation of mixed biochar based nano-composites” [Fuel 336 (2023) 126930] (Fuel (2023) 336, (S0016236122037541), (10.1016/j.fuel.2022.126930))
AU - Ahmad, Awais
AU - Zahra, Mushkbar
AU - Alam, Fakhar e.
AU - Ali, Shafaqat
AU - Pervaiz, Muhammad
AU - Saeed, Zohaib
AU - Younas, Umer
AU - Mushtaq, Muhammad
AU - Rajendran, Saravanan
AU - Luque, Rafael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2025/2/15
Y1 - 2025/2/15
N2 - This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. In investigating concerns regarding suspicious changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper the Editor reached out to the authors for an explanation. In summary, one author was removed from the paper during revision. The author's names Fakhar E Alam and Shafaqat Ali were then added to the revised paper without explanation and without exceptional approval by the journal Editor, which is contrary to the journal policy on changes to authorship. The authors failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to the above change. Post-publication, the Editor also discovered suspicious email addresses used by some authors during the submission process that were associated with multiple researcher accounts. The Editor has determined that the authorship of the paper cannot be relied upon, and the article needs to be retracted.
AB - This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. In investigating concerns regarding suspicious changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper the Editor reached out to the authors for an explanation. In summary, one author was removed from the paper during revision. The author's names Fakhar E Alam and Shafaqat Ali were then added to the revised paper without explanation and without exceptional approval by the journal Editor, which is contrary to the journal policy on changes to authorship. The authors failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to the above change. Post-publication, the Editor also discovered suspicious email addresses used by some authors during the submission process that were associated with multiple researcher accounts. The Editor has determined that the authorship of the paper cannot be relied upon, and the article needs to be retracted.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85210095669
U2 - 10.1016/j.fuel.2024.133853
DO - 10.1016/j.fuel.2024.133853
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85210095669
SN - 0016-2361
VL - 382
JO - Fuel
JF - Fuel
M1 - 133853
ER -