The Journal retracts the article titled “Exploration of the Subsurface Three-Dimensional Structure in Rare Earth Ore Areas Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography: A Case Study in Changting, Fujian, China” [1], cited above.
Following the article’s publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the Editorial Office regarding an unattributed overlap between this publication [1] and an earlier article published by a different group of authors.
Adhering to our complaints procedure, an investigation was conducted by the Editorial Office and Editorial Board which confirmed an overlap between the two publications without appropriate acknowledgement or citation. The Editorial Board has decided to retract this article [1] as per MDPI’s retraction policy (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark30).
This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Minerals.
Jie Zhu and Yang Yang agree to this retraction. The remaining authors did not provide a comment on this decision.
Reference
- Tang, Y.; Liu, P.; Jia, S.; Yang, Y.; Mo, Y.; Zhu, J. RETRACTED: Exploration of the Subsurface Three-Dimensional Structure in Rare Earth Ore Areas Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography: A Case Study in Changting, Fujian, China. Minerals 2024, 14, 1164. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
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