We, the Editor and Publisher of Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A, together with the authors, have retracted the following article:
Jesús Gabriel Rangel-Peraza, Edith Padilla-Gasca, Yaneth A. Bustos-Terrones. Surface response methodology for optimizing the degradation kinetics and efficiency removal of sulfamethazine in a UV/S2O8 2− oxidation process. Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A 2020; 55: Latest Articles.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10934529.2020.1797384
The authors of this article requested retraction, noting that they had omitted an author and that their research contained data without proper authorization from the owner.
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The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.