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Editorial Note: Does high-speed rail stimulate university technology transfer? evidence from China

  • The PLOS One Editors

This article [1] was identified as one of a series of submissions for which we have concerns that the peer review did not meet the expected standards for PLOS One. We regret that the issues were not identified and addressed prior to the article’s publication.

This note is not intended to question the quality of the article or contributions of the authors to the review process.

Additionally, the following references were cited in [1] in response to reviewer requests, and the Editors are concerned about their relevance to this article: 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 55, 57, 58, 59.

Reference

  1. 1. Wu X, Luo H, Wu Y. Does high-speed rail stimulate university technology transfer? evidence from China. PLoS One. 2023;18(5):e0285431. pmid:37205677

Citation: The PLOS One Editors (2025) Editorial Note: Does high-speed rail stimulate university technology transfer? evidence from China. PLoS One 20(11): e0336074. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0336074

Published: November 6, 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.