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. 2025 Dec 21;12(1):e44400. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e44400

Retraction notice to "Fenchone and camphor: Main natural compounds from Lavandula stoechas L., expediting multiple in vitro biological activities" [Heliyon 9 (2023) e21222]

Nasreddine El Omari a, Abdelaali Balahbib b, Saad Bakrim c, Taoufiq Benali d, Riaz Ullah e, Amal Alotaibi f, Hanae Naceiri El Mrabti g,h, Bey Hing Goh i,j,⁎⁎⁎, Seng-Kai Ong i, Long Chiau Ming i,⁎⁎, Abdelhakim Bouyahya b,
PMCID: PMC13455949  PMID: 42581941

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier policy on article withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal).

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor.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 suspicious changes in authorship after acceptance of this paper. Following acceptance, one author was added to the paper and one author was removed from the paper. This was approved by the journal at the time, but in light of the new investigation the Editor has determined that the authorship and the findings of the article cannot be relied upon.

Elsevier's Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics team reached out to the authors for an explanation, but they failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to these changes. The Editor has determined that the authorship cannot be relied upon and has lost confidence in the results and conclusions of the article and has determined it should be retracted.

The authors disagree with the retraction and dispute the grounds for it.


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