The journal retracts the article titled “A Sugarcane-Bagasse-Based Adsorbent Employed for Mitigating Eutrophication Threats and Producing Biodiesel Simultaneously” [1], cited above.
Following publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the Editorial Office regarding the relevance of a number of references presented in this study [1].
Adhering to our complaints procedure, an investigation was conducted by the Editorial Office and Editorial Board that confirmed that a significant proportion of the citations were not appropriately relevant to this publication nor compliant with MDPI’s citation policies (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark20). Furthermore, the Editorial Board concluded that this article lacked appropriate citations to support the findings that are presented. Therefore, the authors and the Editorial Board have decided to retract this publication [1], as per MDPI’s retraction policy (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark30).
This retraction was approved by the Section Editor-in-Chief of the journal Processes.
The authors agreed with this retraction.
Reference
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