Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4389245 | Ecological Engineering | 2015 | 4 Pages |
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief due to extensive overlap with the previously published paper (Miller et al. (2008) DOI: 10.1021/es7025054 in the journal Environmental Science and Technology) and with the previously published paper (Pritchard et al. (2010) DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2010.07.020 in the journal Physics and Chemistry of the Earth.One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. 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.