Retraction: Analytical study on COVID-19 to predict future infected cases ratio in India using Machine Leaning (IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 1022 012022)

Abstract

This article has been retracted by IOP Publishing following an allegation that the work contains tortured phrases [1]. IOP Publishing has investigated in line with the COPE guidelines and agrees the article contains nonsensical phrases that feature throughout the paper. This casts serious doubt over the legitimacy of the article and expertise of the authors in this topic and makes portions of the work hard to parse. It suggests the article may have been created at least partly by artificial intelligence or translation software. The article has been found to reference several publications that are out of scope and do not support the respective points in the body of the article that they reference. Further, the author was unable to provide the data that correlated with the study when requested by the journal. The evidence gathered by IOP Publishing to date, combined with the lack of author explanation for the concerns raised considerably reduces confidence in the work to the extent that IOP Publishing has made the decision to retract the work. IOP Publishing wishes to credit the PubPeer commenters [2] for bringing the issue to our attention. The authors neither agree nor disagree to this retraction. [1] G Cabanac, C Labbé, A Magazinov, (2021), ‘Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science. Evidence of critical issues affecting established journals’https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2107.06751 [2]https://pubpeer.com/publications/9510DB639EE8031C5E1582EA5F9A8B Retraction published: 03 July 2024