The journal retracts the article “Does Innovative City Pilot Policy Stimulate the Chinese Regional Innovation: An Application of DID Model” [1], cited above.
Following publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the Editorial Office regarding an overlap between this publication [1] and a published manuscript [2] produced by a different author group.
Adhering to our complaints procedure, the Editorial Office and Editorial Board conducted an investigation that confirmed a significant overlap between these two articles [1,2], without appropriate acknowledgment. As a result, the Editorial Board have decided to retract this paper as per MDPI’s retraction policy (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark30).
This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Baorong Yu agrees to this retraction. Muniba disagrees to this retraction.
References
- Muniba; Yu, B. RETRACTED: Does Innovative City Pilot Policy Stimulate the Chinese Regional Innovation: An Application of DID Model. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 1245. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
- Yang, H.; Wang, C.; Wang, G. Convergence or dispersion? The impact of China’s innovative city pilot policy on regional innovation differences. PLoS ONE 2023, 18, e0281685. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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