We, the Editors and Publisher of The Social Science Journal, have retracted the following book review:
Yi, Z., & Yang, K. (2024). China’s railway transformation: History, culture changes and urban development: by Junjie Xi and Paco Mejias Villatoro, London, Routledge, 2023, 208 pp., £27.99 (eBook), ISBN 9781032424583. The Social Science Journal, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1080/03623319.2024.2310650
Since publication, we have been contacted by Zheng Yi, who claims their affiliation and name were fraudulently used in the production of this book review. We have contacted the authors for an explanation, but despite multiple attempts we have not received a response. As determining authorship is core to the integrity of published work, we are retracting the article. All authors listed in this publication have been informed.
We have been informed in our decision-making by our editorial policies and the COPE guidelines. The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.