RETRACTED: Wang et al. Evaluating and Predicting Green Technology Innovation Efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt: Based on the Joint SBM Model and GM(1,N|λ,γ) Model. Sustainability 2025, 17, 6229

Wang, Jie; Xiong, Pingping; Wang, Shanshan; Yuan, Ziheng; Shangguan, Jiawei

doi:10.3390/su18062713

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RETRACTED: Wang et al. Evaluating and Predicting Green Technology Innovation Efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt: Based on the Joint SBM Model and GM(1,N|λ,γ) Model. Sustainability 2025, 17, 6229

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Jie Wang

¹,

Pingping Xiong

^2,3,*,

Shanshan Wang

¹,

Ziheng Yuan

⁴ and

Jiawei Shangguan

²

¹

School of Mathematics and Statistics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China

²

School of Management Science and Engineering, Research Institute for Risk Governance and Emergency Decision-Making, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China

³

Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China

⁴

School of Business, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Sustainability 2026, 18(6), 2713; https://doi.org/10.3390/su18062713

Submission received: 4 March 2026 / Accepted: 5 March 2026 / Published: 11 March 2026

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The journal retracts the article titled, “Evaluating and Predicting Green Technology Innovation Efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt: Based on the Joint SBM Model and GM(1,N|λ,γ) Model” [1], cited above.

Following publication, the authors notified the Editorial Office that they had identified a technical error in the data processing script used in the study and requested the retraction of this article [1].

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Wang, J., Xiong, P., Wang, S., Yuan, Z., & Shangguan, J. (2026). RETRACTED: Wang et al. Evaluating and Predicting Green Technology Innovation Efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt: Based on the Joint SBM Model and GM(1,N|λ,γ) Model. Sustainability 2025, 17, 6229. Sustainability, 18(6), 2713. https://doi.org/10.3390/su18062713

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