Retraction Note: Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials (2019) 30:1065–1077

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10904-019-01253-6

The Editors in Chiefs have retracted this article because Figs. 1 and 4, as well as parts of the text, were duplicated from other articles published by the same authors. Specifically:

Figure 1 – the four diffractograms in the top part appear to be identical. It also appears this figure has been published in other articles by the same author under submission around the same time, such as Fig. 2 in (1, now retracted), as Fig. 1 in (2, now retracted) and as part of Fig. 1 in (3), but with different descriptions.

Figure 4 b,c and d appear to have been also presented as Fig. 4 b,c and d in (2, now retracted), while Fig. 4d appears to have been also included as Fig. 3d in (3). Furthermore, there appears to be further overlap between Fig. 4 b, d and e and Fig. 4 a, c and d respectively but with different data labels in an article by the same authors under submission at the same time in a different journal (4, now retracted).

Text overlap has also been found with (5) by the same authors. After publication, the authors contacted the journal stating that the results of Fig. 7 were not reproducible and requested a retraction. In addition, Author Yan Chen has stated he submitted the article without informing Youtao Song and Jun Wang. Yan Chen agrees to this retraction. Jun Wang has not explicitly stated whether he agrees to this retraction notice. Youtao Song and Qiong Wu have not responded to any correspondence from the editor or publisher about this retraction.