The Coatings Editorial Office retracts the article entitled “Advanced Binder-Free Electrode Based on CuCo2O4 Nanowires Coated with a Polypyrrole Layer as a High-Performance Nonenzymatic Glucose Sensing Platform” [1], cited above.
Following the publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the Editorial Office regarding concerns relating to the relevancy of references and authorship in this publication [1].
Adhering to our procedure, an investigation was conducted by the Editorial Office and the Editorial Board that confirmed that a significant portion of the literature cited was not sufficiently relevant to this publication and thus does not comply with MDPI’s Citation Policies (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark20 (accessed on 8 May 2024)). Furthermore, following communications with the authorship group, the Editorial Office was unable to verify the accuracy of the originally listed authorship list. As a result, the Editorial Board has lost confidence in the integrity of the findings and decided to retract this publication [1], as per MDPI’s retraction policy (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark30 (accessed on 8 May 2024)) and in line with the Committee on Publication Ethics retraction guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/retraction-guidelines (accessed on 8 May 2024)).
This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of Coatings.
The author Afshin Davarpanah agrees with this retraction. The authors Yasser Fakri Mustafa and Ahmed Jaber Ibrahim disagree with this retraction. The other authors did not provide a comment on this decision.
Reference
- Hatshan, M.R.; Aslam, S.; Bokov, D.; Ibrahim, A.J.; Mustafa, Y.F.; Davarpanah, A.; Elveny, M.; Ali, S. RETRACTED: Advanced Binder-Free Electrode Based on CuCo2O4 Nanowires Coated with Polypyrrole Layer as a High-Performance Nonenzymatic Glucose Sensing Platform. Coatings 2021, 11, 1462. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
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