RETRACTED: Hu et al. Hybrid Thermal-Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods; An Experimental Study for Tight Reservoirs. Symmetry 2020, 12, 947

The Symmetry Editorial Office retracts the article titled “RETRACTED: Hybrid Thermal-Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods; An Experimental Study for Tight Reservoirs” [1], cited above.

Following the publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the Editorial Office regarding issues related to the accuracy of the authorship list, the origin of the reported study, and the relevancy of references presented in this study [1].

Adhering to our procedure, an investigation was conducted by the Editorial Office and the Editorial Board. Following communications with the authorship group, the Editorial Office was unable to verify the accuracy of the originally listed authorship list, nor were the authors able to provide raw material to confirm the origins of this study. Relevant institutions were also contacted but failed to respond to these concerns. Furthermore, the Editorial Board judged that a significant portion of the research cited was not sufficiently relevant to this publication and thus does not comply with MDPI’s Citation Policies (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark20). As a result, the Editorial Board has lost confidence in the integrity of the findings and decided to retract this publication [1], as per MDPI’s retraction policy (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark30) and in line with the Committee on Publication Ethics’s retraction guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/retraction-guidelines).

This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of the Symmetry journal.

Dr. Afshin Davarpanah disagrees with the retraction, while the remaining authors did not provide a comment on this decision.