We, the Editors and Publisher of Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews have retracted the following article:
Erhong Zhang, Meng Wang, Xiaoliang Pan, Xinfeng Wang & Wenju Zhang (2022) Preparation of carrierized cellulase Cellulase@MIL-88B(Fe) and its enzymatic properties, Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews, 15:3, 627-637, DOI: 10.1080/17518253.2022.2124890
Following publication, the authors requested the withdrawal of this article in 2022 due to a conflict with an associated patent. Further investigations by the Publisher, in close collaboration with the Editor-in-Chief, could not confirm a conflict with an associated patent but revealed that the article has significant overlap with a chapter of an unpublished thesis titled Construction of an adaptive immobilized cellulase system and its enzymatic hydrolysis performance authored by Tiantian Li in June 2022. More specifically, the overlap involves most of the data in the article which was reused without the required permissions, or the knowledge of the owners of the data.
Upon query, the authors have cooperated with the investigation, but could neither demonstrate that their data was obtained appropriately, nor that their study was conducted in compliance with our editorial policies. As the reuse of data from a third-party without acquiring the required permissions is a serious breach of publishing ethics, we are retracting the article from the journal. The corresponding author listed in this publication has 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The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.