1 Expression of Concern: Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess (2016) 30:1189–1203 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-015-1116-3

The Editor-in-Chief of Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment is issuing an editorial expression of concern for article (Kariminia et al. 2016a) to alert readers that the authors suggested peer reviewers whose identity was not possible to verify. This article contains overlap with the following articles (amongst others) (Petković and Shamshirband 2015; Kariminia et al. 2016b). The authors do not agree to this expression of concern.