RETRACTED ARTICLE: An empirical study on the impact of human capital on cost efficiency: taking the main corn production areas in China as an example

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This article has been retracted from publication in the Taylor & Francis journal, Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B — Soil & Plant Science.

Following publication, concerns were raised by multiple third-parties around the content of the special issue and the decision-making process.

Following an investigation by the Taylor & Francis Publishing Ethics & Integrity team in full cooperation with the Editor-in-Chief, it was confirmed that this article included in Special Issue titled “Envisage Computer Modelling and Statistics for Agriculture”, guest edited by Gunasekaran Manogaran was not peer-reviewed appropriately, in line with the Journal's peer review standards and policy.

As the stringency of the peer review process is core to the integrity of the publication process, the Editor and Publisher have decided to retract all of the articles within the above-named Special Issue.

The journal has not confirmed if the authors were aware of this compromised peer review process.

The journal is committed to correcting the scientific record and will fully cooperate with any institutional investigations into this matter. The authors have been informed of this decision.

We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines.

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Wang Qian

Wang Qian (1983 -), female, born in Fushun, Liaoning Province, China, is a doctoral candidate in school of economics and management, Shenyang Agricultural University. She also is a teacher at Shenyang Institute of Technology. She is mainly engaged in the research of agricultural industrial organization and management and agricultural economic theory and policy.

Lv Jie

Lu Jie (1963 -), male, born in Suzhou, Anhui Province, China, is a professor and doctoral supervisor of School of economics and management of Shenyang Agricultural University. He is mainly engaged in agricultural development, agricultural modernization and agricultural economic theory and policy research.