Retraction Note: Growth property at infinity of harmonic functions

Abstract This paper gives the growth property of certain harmonic functions at infinity in an n-dimensional cone, which generalize the results obtained by Huang and Qiao (Abstr. Appl. Anal. 2012:203096, 2012), Xu et al. (Bound. Value Probl. 2013:262, 2013), Yang and Ren (Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. Math. Sci. 124(2): 175-178, 2014) and Zhao and Yamada (J. Inequal. Appl. 2014:497, 2014) to the conical case.

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Retraction Note: Eficacy of pentoxifylline treatment for neonatal sepsis: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled studies

Italian Journal of Pediatrics ◽

10.1186/s13052-021-00979-9 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Jun Tian ◽

Peifang Shen ◽

Kaiyu Pan ◽

Qiong Zhou

Keyword(s):

Neonatal Sepsis ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Randomized Controlled ◽

Link Type ◽

Randomized Controlled Studies ◽

Retraction Notice

This article has been retracted. Please see the Retraction Notice for more detail: 10.1186/s13052-019-0697-8

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Retraction Note: Molecular Phylogeny and Revision of Copepod Orders (Crustacea: Copepoda)

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-020-74404-2 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Sahar Khodami ◽

J. Vaun McArthur ◽

Leocadio Blanco-Bercial ◽

Pedro Martinez Arbizu

Keyword(s):

Molecular Phylogeny ◽

Link Type ◽

Retraction Notice

Editor's Note: This article has been retracted. Please see the Retraction Notice for more detail: 10.1038/s41598-020-74404-2

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Retraction notice to: ‘Assembly of efficient Ag/n-Si/Cu2CdSnS4/Au 5 for photovoltaic cell utilities’

The European Physical Journal Applied Physics ◽

10.1051/epjap/210010s ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 93 (3) ◽

pp. 30302

Author(s):

Halemah I. El Saeedy ◽

Hanan A. Yakout ◽

Mona Mahmoud ◽

Said A. Abdelaal ◽

Mardia T. El Sayed

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Photovoltaic Cell ◽

Careful Consideration ◽

Applied Physics ◽

Fundamental Nature ◽

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Retraction Notice

Refers to RETRACTED: Assembly of efficient Ag/n-Si/Cu2CdSnS4/ Au for photovoltaic cell utilities, Halemah I. El Saeedy, Hanan A. Yakout, Mona Mahmoud, Said A. Abdelaal, and Mardia T. El Sayed, Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. 92, 30302 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2020200207. published online 17 December 2020 At the request of the Authors, the following article has been retracted. The following article has been retracted. Shortly after publication, the Editorial Board of EPJ Applied Physics received comments from a specialist in electron microscopy and analysis. He pointed out that the paper presented severe errors dealing with the microanalysis spectrum presented in one of the figures. As a conclusion, the presented EDS spectrum could not correspond to the studied sample. After careful consideration, the Editorial Board of EPJ Applied Physics asked for the retraction of this paper, due to the fundamental nature of the mistakes in the data and analysis of EDS spectrum, upon which the conclusion of the paper was incorrectly found. The Authors accept this decision and request the retraction of the paper.

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Retraction Note: Mothers’ experiences of caring for preterm babies at home: qualitative insights from an urban setting in a middle-income country

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth ◽

10.1186/s12884-021-04185-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Isabella Garti ◽

Elorm Donkor ◽

Nafisatu Musah ◽

Evans Osei Appiah ◽

Sandra Gyekye ◽

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Keyword(s):

Middle Income Country ◽

Urban Setting ◽

Income Country ◽

Middle Income ◽

Link Type ◽

Preterm Babies ◽

Retraction Notice ◽

Mothers Experiences ◽

At Home

This article has been retracted. Please see the Retraction Notice for more detail: 10.1186/s12884-021-04185-7

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Continued post-retraction citation of a fraudulent clinical trial report, 11 years after it was retracted for falsifying data

Scientometrics ◽

10.1007/s11192-020-03631-1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 125 (3) ◽

pp. 2877-2913

Author(s):

Jodi Schneider ◽

Di Ye ◽

Alison M. Hill ◽

Ashley S. Whitehorn

Keyword(s):

Clinical Trial ◽

Second Generation ◽

Single Case ◽

Nutrition Intervention ◽

Omega 3 ◽

Context Analysis ◽

Link Type ◽

Citation Context ◽

Retraction Notice

AbstractThis paper presents a case study of long-term post-retraction citation to falsified clinical trial data (Matsuyama et al. in Chest 128(6):3817–3827, 2005. 10.1378/chest.128.6.3817), demonstrating problems with how the current digital library environment communicates retraction status. Eleven years after its retraction, the paper continues to be cited positively and uncritically to support a medical nutrition intervention, without mention of its 2008 retraction for falsifying data. To date no high quality clinical trials reporting on the efficacy of omega-3 fatty acids on reducing inflammatory markers have been published. Our paper uses network analysis, citation context analysis, and retraction status visibility analysis to illustrate the potential for extended propagation of misinformation over a citation network, updating and extending a case study of the first 6 years of post-retraction citation (Fulton et al. in Publications 3(1):7–26, 2015. 10.3390/publications3010017). The current study covers 148 direct citations from 2006 through 2019 and their 2542 second-generation citations and assesses retraction status visibility of the case study paper and its retraction notice on 12 digital platforms as of 2020. The retraction is not mentioned in 96% (107/112) of direct post-retraction citations for which we were able to conduct citation context analysis. Over 41% (44/107) of direct post-retraction citations that do not mention the retraction describe the case study paper in detail, giving a risk of diffusing misinformation from the case paper. We analyze 152 second-generation citations to the most recent 35 direct citations (2010–2019) that do not mention the retraction but do mention methods or results of the case paper, finding 23 possible diffusions of misinformation from these non-direct citations to the case paper. Link resolving errors from databases show a significant challenge in a reader reaching the retraction notice via a database search. Only 1/8 databases (and 1/9 database records) consistently resolved the retraction notice to its full-text correctly in our tests. Although limited to evaluation of a single case (N = 1), this work demonstrates how retracted research can continue to spread and how the current information environment contributes to this problem.

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