We, the Editors and Publisher of the journal Soil and Sediment Contamination: An International Journal, have retracted the following article:
Sergey Tarasyants, Aleksandr Tkachov, Vladimir Rudakov, Yulia Urzhumova & Denis Efimov (2021) Monitoring of Fertilization and Increase of Fertility of Agricultural Soils, Soil and Sediment Contamination: An International Journal, 30:7, 886-899, DOI: 10.1080/15320383.2021.1900067
It has come to our attention that the full authorship list and affiliations for this manuscript were changed after the article was submitted. We have contacted the authors for an explanation, but we have not received a response within the requested timeframe. As determining authorship is core to the integrity of published work, we are therefore retracting the article. The authors listed in this publication have been informed.
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The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.