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Expression of Concern

Expression of Concern: Do high house prices promote the development of China’s real economy? Empirical evidence based on the decomposition of real estate price

  • The PLOS One Editors

The PLOS One Editors issue this Expression of Concern due to concerns about the article’s [1] peer review and compliance with the PLOS Authorship policy.

In addition, the following issues were identified:

  • The undeclared use of a generative AI tool during the manuscript revisions process.
  • A lack of supporting citations for statements in the Introduction section.

The authors declared that ChatGPT-4.0 was used for language polishing, and they stated that they verified for the scientific accuracy of AI-revised content. The PLOS One Editors consider this issue resolved.

The authors acknowledged the lack of citations in the Introduction section and explained that a ‘background-style’ Introduction without literature citations followed by a cited Literature Review is a common manuscript format in Chinese-language journals.

Reference

  1. 1. Fan W, He Y, Hao L, Wu F. Do high house prices promote the development of China’s real economy? Empirical evidence based on the decomposition of real estate price. PLoS One. 2024;19(1):e0295311. pmid:38206913

Citation: The PLOS One Editors (2025) Expression of Concern: Do high house prices promote the development of China’s real economy? Empirical evidence based on the decomposition of real estate price. PLoS One 20(10): e0334267. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0334267

Published: October 13, 2025

Copyright: © 2025 The PLOS One Editors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.