The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article [1], which was published as part of special issue “Multi-source Weak Data Management using Big Data”, because it shows substantial text overlap, most notably with the article cited [2]. All authors agree to this retraction. References 1. Sun, X., Zhang, C., Ding, S. et al. Detecting anomalous emotion through big data from social networks based on a deep learning method. Multimed Tools Appl (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-5665-6 2. Sun, X., Zhang, C., Li, G. et al. Detecting users’ anomalous emotion using social media for business intelligence. Journal of Computational Science (2018). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2017.05.029