The journal retracts the article titled “Developing and Enhancing the Competitiveness of the Palestinian National Product: The Leather and Footwear Sector—Analysis and Evaluation of Government Interventions” [1].
Following publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the Editorial Office regarding an overlap between this publication [1] and a previously published article [2] produced by a different authorship group in different language.
Adhering to our complaints procedure, the Editorial Office and Editorial Board con-ducted an investigation that confirmed a significant overlap between these two articles [1,2] without appropriate acknowledgment or citation. As a result, the Editorial Boardhas 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 Sustainability.
The authors did not agree to this retraction.
References
- Hoja, H.; Yu, P. RETRACTED: Developing and Enhancing the Competitiveness of the Palestinian National Product: The Leather and Footwear Sector—Analysis and Evaluation of Government Interventions. Sustainability 2022, 14, 7745. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [Scilit]
- Fallah, B. Developing the Competitiveness of Palestinian Product and Increasing its Market Share: Footwear and Leather Sector; MAS: Ramallah, Palestine, 2018.
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