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. 2025 Oct 29;11(16):e44085. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e44085

Retraction notice to "Unmasking the challenges in ideological and political education in China: A thematic review" [Heliyon 10 (2024) e29176]

Sha Ouyang a,b, Wei Zhang c, Jian Xu d, Abdullah Mat Rashid a,, Shwu Pyng How a, Aminuddin Bin Hassan a
PMCID: PMC12675124  PMID: 41395417

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier policy on article withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal).

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor.

Post-publication, an investigation conducted on behalf of the journal by Elsevier's Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics team discovered that the paper cites a significant number of papers that were retracted prior to the paper's submission. In total, 46 of the cited references were retracted prior to the paper's submission. The Editor reached out to the authors for an explanation regarding the references, and the authors stated that the data was collected prior to the retraction of these references. As the findings are based on a significant number of retracted references, the Editor has lost confidence in the validity of the findings and has decided to retract it.

The authors disagree with retraction.


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