The journal retracts the article titled “Innovative Use of Self-Attention-Based Ensemble Deep Learning for Suicide Risk Detection in Social Media Posts” [1].
Following publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the Editorial Office regarding an overlap between this publication [1] and a pre-print article [2] produced by a different authorship group.
Adhering to our complaints procedure, the Editorial Office and Editorial Board conducted an investigation that confirmed a significant overlap, which includes Figures 1–3 and Table 1 without appropriate acknowledgment or citation. As a result, the Editorial Board have 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 Applied Sciences.
The authors did not provide a comment on this decision.
References
- Choi, H.-S.; Yang, J. RETRACTED: Innovative Use of Self-Attention-Based Ensemble Deep Learning for Suicide Risk Detection in Social Media Posts. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 893. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
- Leili, M.S.; Sergio, G.; Reza, S. A Self-Attention TCN-based Model for Suicidal Ideation Detection from Social Media Posts. SSRN 2023, 255, 124855. Available online: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4410421 (accessed on 8 June 2024).
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