RETRACTED: Chemical free, bio-Intercalation of selenium nanoparticles for highly accelerated photo-responsive of organic contaminants debasement and their in-vitro anti-bacterial agents, anti-oxidants effect, cyto-toxic analysis

• Published in: Environmental research 2024-10, Vol.259, p.119479, Article 119479
• Main Authors: Rajendran, Janani, Jeyaraman, Prasanna, Sakthivel, Elamathi, Almansour, Abdulrahman I., Arumugam, Natarajan, BothiRaja, Pandian
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0013-9351
• DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.119479

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor. The corresponding author has asked the journal to withdraw the article due to 'conflicts between the authors and the data'. Additionally, the authors have plagiarized Figure 4 of a paper that had already appeared in Journal of Materials Research38, 1909–1918, (2023). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-023-00965-3. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process. Furthermore, post-acceptance, the editor discovered 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, but they failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to these changes. Such authorship changes breach the policies of the journal and as a result, the editors no longer have confidence in this paper and are retracting it. The journal apologises for not having identified the problematic authorship changes during the review process and for any resulting inconvenience.