Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Iran.
Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Iran.
Sci Total Environ. 2018 Oct 15;639:1156-1163. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.203. Epub 2018 May 26.
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors-in-Chief. After a thorough investigation, the Editors have concluded that the acceptance of this article was partly based upon the positive advice of one illegitimate reviewer report. The report was submitted from an email account which was provided by the corresponding author C.A. Damalas as a suggested reviewer during the submission of the article. Although purportedly a real reviewer account, the Editors have concluded that this was not of an appropriate, independent reviewer. This manipulation of the peer-review process represents a clear violation of the fundamentals of peer review, our publishing policies, and publishing ethics standards. Apologies are offered to the reviewer whose identity was assumed and to the readers of the journal that this deception was not detected during the submission process.
请参阅爱思唯尔关于文章撤回的政策（https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal）。应主编要求，本文已被撤回。经过彻底调查，编辑们得出结论，接受这篇文章的部分原因是基于一位非法审稿人的正面建议报告。该报告是由通讯作者 C.A. Damalas 在提交文章时提供的一个建议审稿人电子邮件账户提交的。尽管该报告表面上是一个真正的审稿人账户，但编辑们得出的结论是，该账户并非合适、独立的审稿人。这种操纵同行评审过程的行为严重违反了同行评审的基本原则、我们的出版政策和出版道德标准。向被冒名顶替的审稿人以及本刊的读者表示歉意，因为在提交过程中未能发现这种欺骗行为。
