We, the Editors and Publisher of Journal of Sulfur Chemistry, have retracted the following article:
Basem H. Elesawy, Ahmad El Askary, Nasser S. Awwad, Hala A. Ibrahium, P.D. Nezhad, Mohd Shkir, A density functional theory study of Au-decorated gallium nitride nano-tubes as chemical sensors for the recognition of sulfonamide, Journal of Sulfur Chemistry, Volume 43, Issue 5, 2022, Pages 482–493, ISSN 1741-5993, https://doi.org/10.1080/17415993.2022.2074794.
Since publication, concerns have been raised about the authorship. Additionally, this article has substantial overlap with the following article, particularly in the result section, which is not cited:
Yan Cao, Aylar Feizollahi Vahid, Fatemeh Sadat Sadeghzadeh, Hamidreza Soleimanpour, Sheida Ahmadi, Mohammad Reza Poor Heravi, A DFT study on the Ag-decorated AlP nanosheets as chemical sensor for recognition of adrucil drug, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, Volume 1206, 2021, 113484, ISSN 2210-271X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comptc.2021.113484.
When approached for an explanation, the authors did not provide their original data, authorship contributions or any supporting information. As verifying the validity of published work is core to the integrity of the scholarly record, we are therefore retracting the article.
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The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.