Retracted: Rapid and effective sample cleanup based on graphene oxide-encapsulated core-shell magnetic microspheres for determination of fifteen trace environmental phenols in seafood by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

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This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor after the corresponding author pointed the Editor to comments from an anonymous reader. The article reports electron micrographs of different preparations while showing identical images as used in previous publications by the same authors. The particles in Fig.4C (SEM image of Fe3O4@SiO2) are identical to each other and the corresponding author confirmed that these have been copy-pasted. In addition, these particles have previously been communicated as different substances in Fig.1B from Pan etal., J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015,3, 23042-23052 (DOI: 10.1039/C5TA05840F) and Fig.3F from Pan etal., Anal. Methods, 2017,9, 5281-5292 (DOI: 10.1039/C7AY01444A). Furthermore, the curves in Fig.7, especially the baseline, shows a remarkable similarity to Fig.8 from Pan etal., J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015,3, 23042-23052 (DOI: 10.1039/C5TA05840F) and Fig.5F from Pan etal., J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014,2, 15345-15356 (DOI: 10.1039/c4ta02600d). The manipulation of images and data in this way is a serious offense to the integrity of the scientific community and casts doubts on all the data, and accordingly also the conclusions based on that data, in this publication. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process. This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal).