Retraction Notice To “the Investigation of Energy Management and Atomic Interaction Between Coronavirus Structure in the Vicinity of Aqueous Environment of H2o Molecules Via Molecular Dynamics Approach” [J. Mol. Liq. 341 (2021) 117430] (Journal of Molecular Liquids (2021) 341, (S0167732221021541), (10.1016/J.molliq.2021.117430))

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Post-publication, the editor discovered suspicious changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper. During revision one author was removed. The author Hussam Rabai'ah was added to the revised paper without explanation and without the exceptional approval by the journal editor, which is contrary to the journal policy on changes to authorship. In addition, there are serious concerns about images, specifically: Figures 2,3, 5 and 6 and the relevancy of some of the citations. The editor reached out to the authors for an explanation, but they failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to these issues. Post-publication, an investigation conducted on behalf of the journal by Elsevier's Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics team also discovered that acceptance of this article was solely based upon the positive advice of a reviewer who was closely linked to one of the authors, Arash Karimipour. This compromised the editorial process and breached the journal's policies. The Ethics team has also determined that the authors were requested by one of the reviewers to insert redundant references to their papers during the peer-review process. The investigation also discovered suspicious email addresses used by the authors during submission that were not associated with legitimate researcher accounts. Overall, the editor has determined that the authorship and the findings of the article cannot be relied upon, and has decided to retract the article. The authors disagree with the retraction of the article and dispute the grounds for it. © 2025 Elsevier B.V.