Retraction notice to “Study of circular, horizontal and vertical elliptical enclosures filled with phase change material in thermal management of lithium-ion batteries in an air-cooled system” [J. Energy Storage 53 (2022) 105041](S2352152X2201043X)(10.1016/j.est.2022.105041)

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal). Please note that an Expression of Concern has previously been published to alert readers to an ongoing investigation into this paper. This retraction supersedes the Expression of Concern. This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. In investigating concerns brought up regarding the article, the editor reached out to the authors for an explanation (https://pubpeer.com/publications/68332BAC25BDE4F12EE39152E38DDF). Post-publication, the Editor-in-Chief also discovered suspicious changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper. In summary, the First Author of the original submission was removed, and the author's name Xinrui Qi was added as a new First Author to the revised paper without exceptional approval by the journal Editor, which is contrary to the journal policy on changes to authorship. The authors failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to the above points. Furthermore, the acceptance of this article was partly based upon the positive advice of reviewer reports from reviewers who were closely linked to the Guest Editor, Masoud Afrand. Apologies are offered to the readers.