Retraction of: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18761-0, published online 29 August 2022
The Editors have retracted this Article.
Following the publication of this Article, concerns were raised regarding the presence of irrelevant references. Further investigation by the Editors found additional errors in the Article that include potentially problematic equations (11-14), presence of undefined variables (Rf, Rs, Sf, Ss, wg1, wg2, wg3) in the provided code that are not mentioned in the Article, as well as unverifiable authorship.
The Editors therefore have lost confidence in the integrity of this Article.
The Editors were not able to obtain the current contact details of Ahmad Banji Jafar, Syed M. Hussain, and Aysha Rehman. The remaining Authors have not responded to correspondence from the Editors about this retraction.
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Jafar, A.B., Shafie, S., Ullah, I. et al. Retraction Note: Mixed convection flow of an electrically conducting viscoelastic fluid past a vertical nonlinearly stretching sheet. Sci Rep 15, 18314 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-02616-5
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