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Retraction

RETRACTED: Masood et al. Exploring Groundwater Quality Assessment: A Geostatistical and Integrated Water Quality Indices Perspective. Water 2024, 16, 138

by
Muhammad Umer Masood
1,
Muhammad Rashid
2,3,
Saif Haider
2,3,
Iram Naz
2,3,
Chaitanya B. Pande
3,4,5,*,
Salim Heddam
6,
Fahad Alshehri
3,
Ismail Elkhrachy
7,
Amimul Ahsan
8,9,* and
Saad Sh. Sammen
10
1
Geological Engineering Department, Montana Technological University, Butte, MT 59701, USA
2
Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore 54890, Pakistan
3
Abdullah Alrushaid Chair for Earth Science Remote Sensing Research, Geology and Geophysics Department, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
4
New Era and Development in Civil Engineering Research Group, Scientific Research Center, Al-Ayen University, Nasiriyah 64001, Thi-Qar, Iraq
5
Institute of Energy Infrastructure, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Kajang 43000, Malaysia
6
Faculty of Science, Agronomy Department, Hydraulics Division, University 20 Août 1955 Skikda, Route EL HADAIK, BP 26, Skikda 21000, Algeria
7
Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Najran University, King Abdulaziz Road, Najran 66454, Saudi Arabia
8
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Gazipur 1704, Bangladesh
9
Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia
10
Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Diyala, Baqubah 10047, Diyala Governorate, Iraq
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Water 2024, 16(9), 1195; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16091195
Submission received: 11 April 2024 / Accepted: 14 April 2024 / Published: 23 April 2024
Versions Notes
The Water Editorial Office retracts the article “Exploring Groundwater Quality Assessment: A Geostatistical and Integrated Water Quality Indices Perspective” [1], cited above.
Following publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the Editorial Office regarding an overlap between this article [1] and a previously published article [2] originating from a different authorship group.
Adhering to our complaint’s procedure, an investigation was conducted by the Editorial Office and Editorial Board that confirmed a significant overlap, which included Figures 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 and Tables 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, without appropriate citations. As a result, the Editorial Office, Editorial Board, Guest Editor and authors have decided to retract this article [1] as per MDPI’s retraction policy (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark30, accessed on 13 April 2024) and in line with the Committee on Publication Ethics retraction guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/retraction-guidelines, 13 April 2024).
This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Water.
The authors agree to this retraction.

References

  1. Masood, M.U.; Rashid, M.; Haider, S.; Naz, I.; Pande, C.B.; Heddam, S.; Alshehri, F.; Elkhrachy, I.; Ahsan, A.; Sammen, S.S. RETRACTED: Exploring Groundwater Quality Assessment: A Geostatistical and Integrated Water Quality Indices Perspective. Water 2024, 16, 138. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  2. Naz, I.; Ahmad, I.; Aslam, R.W.; Quddoos, A.; Yaseen, A. Integrated Assessment and Geostatistical Evaluation of Groundwater Quality through Water Quality Indices. Water 2024, 16, 63. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
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Masood, M.U.; Rashid, M.; Haider, S.; Naz, I.; Pande, C.B.; Heddam, S.; Alshehri, F.; Elkhrachy, I.; Ahsan, A.; Sammen, S.S. RETRACTED: Masood et al. Exploring Groundwater Quality Assessment: A Geostatistical and Integrated Water Quality Indices Perspective. Water 2024, 16, 138. Water 2024, 16, 1195. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16091195

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Masood MU, Rashid M, Haider S, Naz I, Pande CB, Heddam S, Alshehri F, Elkhrachy I, Ahsan A, Sammen SS. RETRACTED: Masood et al. Exploring Groundwater Quality Assessment: A Geostatistical and Integrated Water Quality Indices Perspective. Water 2024, 16, 138. Water. 2024; 16(9):1195. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16091195

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Masood, Muhammad Umer, Muhammad Rashid, Saif Haider, Iram Naz, Chaitanya B. Pande, Salim Heddam, Fahad Alshehri, Ismail Elkhrachy, Amimul Ahsan, and Saad Sh. Sammen. 2024. "RETRACTED: Masood et al. Exploring Groundwater Quality Assessment: A Geostatistical and Integrated Water Quality Indices Perspective. Water 2024, 16, 138" Water 16, no. 9: 1195. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16091195

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Masood, M. U., Rashid, M., Haider, S., Naz, I., Pande, C. B., Heddam, S., Alshehri, F., Elkhrachy, I., Ahsan, A., & Sammen, S. S. (2024). RETRACTED: Masood et al. Exploring Groundwater Quality Assessment: A Geostatistical and Integrated Water Quality Indices Perspective. Water 2024, 16, 138. Water, 16(9), 1195. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16091195

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