The journal retracts the article “Improvement in the Poverty Status of Ecological Migrants under the Urban Resettlement Model: An Empirical Study in China” by Guo et al. [1].
Following publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the publisher regarding overlap with a previously published academic paper, published in another language, of a different authorship [2]. The overlap includes the literature review, theoretical and methods sections, analytical framework and discussions, as well as a number of identical figures and tables.
Adhering to our complaints procedure, an investigation was conducted that confirmed significant overlaps with the previous manuscript, and the article is therefore retracted.
This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sustainability.
The authors agreed to this retraction.
References
- Guo, S.; Liu, G.; Zhang, Q.; Zhao, F.; Ding, G. RETRACTED: Improvement in the Poverty Status of Ecological Migrants under the Urban Resettlement Model: An Empirical Study in China. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2084. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
- Guo, H.; Li, J. Impact of urban resettlement on the livelihood activities of rural resettled households in Southern Shaanxi Province with method of Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM). China Popul. Resour. Environ. 2019, 29, 149–156. (In Chinese) [Google Scholar]
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