The journal retracts the article titled “Prediction of Urban Air Mobility and Drone Accident Rates and the Role of Urban Management Systems” [], cited above.
Following publication, the authors contacted the Editorial Office to raise concerns relating to inclusion of classified data.
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) of South Korea provided our Editorial Board Members and Editorial office the supporting documentation confirming that the data used in the manuscript [] was reclassified as confidential due to national security concerns. Given that this content was deemed to be central to the overall findings presented in this study, the Editorial Board, Editorial Office, and the authors decided to retract and remove this article []. As such, the title, author information and this retraction note will remain permanently available, and the article itself was removed. This information was also transmitted to relevant indexing organizations.
This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of the [Uran Science] journal.
The authors agreed to this retraction.
Reference
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