The PLOS ONE Editors retract this article [1] because it was identified as one of a series of submissions for which we have concerns about authorship, ethics approval, integrity of the underlying data, reliability of the published results, and peer review. We regret that the issues were not identified prior to the article’s publication.
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- 1. Wu Q, Madni GR (2021) Environmental protection in selected one belt one road economies through institutional quality: Prospering transportation and industrialization. PLoS ONE 16(1): e0240851. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240851 pmid:33444315
Citation: The PLOS ONE Editors (2024) Retraction: Environmental protection in selected one belt one road economies through institutional quality: Prospering transportation and industrialization. PLoS ONE 19(11): e0311389. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311389
Published: November 11, 2024
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