We, the Editor and the Publisher of the International Journal of Ambient Energy, have retracted the following article:
Jayavani Lagudu, S. Sathya Narayana & Ganesh Vulasala (2020): Power sharing scheme in interconnected DC microgrids – A new approach, International Journal of Ambient Energy, DOI:10.1080/01430750.2020.1772875
We are now cognizant of the fact that the above article has substantial text-matching and reuse of a figure with the following article:
Sreedhar Madichetty, Bhanu Duggal, Aumkar Borgaonkar and Sukumar Mishra, (2018). “Modeling and design of solid state smart transformer for microgrid”, 2018 IEEMA Engineer Infinite Conference (eTechNxT), 1–6, New Delhi, India, DOI:10.1109/ETECHNXT.2018.8385293
While the authors acknowledge the paper twice within the article, the level of overlap has been deemed significant and therefore the attribution is not sufficient.
We are now also cognizant of the fact that the article has substantial text-matching and the reuse of a figure with the following article, to which no attribution was made:
Philip Mathew, Sreedhar Madichetty and Sukumar Mishra, (2019). “A Multilevel Distributed Hybrid Control Scheme for Islanded DC Microgrids”, IEEE Systems Journal, 13(4), 4200–4207, DOI:10.1109/JSYST.2019.2896927
Finally, we are now aware of the fact that the article has substantial text-matching with the following article, to which no attribution was made:
Dhiman Das, Sreedhar Madichetty, Bhim Singh and Sukumar Mishra, (2019). “Luenberger Observer Based Current Estimated Boost Converter for PV Maximum Power Extraction–A Current Sensorless Approach”, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 9(1), 278–286, DOI:10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2877418
It is therefore not deemed to be an original contribution, and we have informed the author of this decision. We note the breach of warranties made by the authors with respect to originality and provenance, and of our policy on publishing ethics and integrity. We note that we received, peer-reviewed, accepted, and published the article in good faith based on these warranties, and censure this action.
We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions. The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.