Retraction Notice To “The Molecular Dynamics Study of Atomic Management and Thermal Behavior of Al-Water Nanofluid: a Two Phase Unsteady Simulation” [J. Mol. Liquids 340 (2021) 117286] (Journal of Molecular Liquids (2021) 340, (S0167732221020109), (10.1016/J.molliq.2021.117286))

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Post-publication, the editor discovered suspicious changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper. During revision the author Payam Firouzi was added without the exceptional approval by the journal editor, which is contrary to the journal policy on changes to authorship. The editor also found a significant increase of citations to papers published by the author, (Cong Qi), between the original submission and the revised version of this article. In summary, 0 papers by the author were cited in the original version of the article. This increased to 4 papers in the revised version of the article. The editor reached out to the authors for an explanation, but they failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to these changes Post-publication, an investigation conducted on behalf of the journal by Elsevier's Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics team also discovered suspicious email addresses used by the authors during submission that were not associated with legitimate researcher accounts. Overall, the editor has determined that the authorship and the findings of the article cannot be relied upon, and has decided to retract the article. The authors disagree with the retraction of the article and dispute the grounds for it. © 2025 Elsevier B.V.