Abstract
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier policy on article withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor. An investigation conducted on behalf of the journal by Elsevier's Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics team found a significant increase of citations to papers published by the author, Muhammad Bilal, between the original submission and the revised version of this article. In summary, one paper by the author was cited in the original version of the article. This increased to nine papers in the revised version of the article. Further to the above concerns, the investigation has also found that the authors inserted redundant references to their paper during the peer-review process. The Editor has lost confidence in the findings of the article and has determined that it should be retracted. The authors have not responded to the retraction notice.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e43843 |
| Journal | Heliyon |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 14 |
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| State | Published - Sep 2025 |