RETRACTED: Investigation of plasmonic studies on morphology of deposited silver thin films having different thicknesses by soft computing methodologies—A comparative study

• Published in: Physica. E, Low-dimensional systems & nanostructures Vol. 63; pp. 317 - 323
• Main Authors: Zakaria, Rozalina, Noh, Siti Munirah Che, Petković, Dalibor, Shamshirband, Shahaboddin, Penny, Richard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.09.2014
• ISSN: 1386-9477; 1873-1759
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physe.2014.06.003

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor. After a thorough investigation, the Editor has concluded that the acceptance of this article was based upon the positive advice of at least one faked reviewer report. The report was submitted from a fictitious email account which was provided to the journal as a suggested reviewer by the corresponding author during the submission of the paper. This manipulation of the peer-review process represents a clear violation of the fundamentals of peer review, our publishing policies, and publishing ethics standards. Apologies are offered to the readers of the journal that this deception was not detected during the submission process. Section 3 of the article plagiarizes part of the text that appeared in the article published by R. Maity et al in Hydrological Processes 24 (2010) 917–923, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.7535. The article also duplicates parts of the articles previously published by the authors in the Journal of the Optical Society of America A 31 (2014) 1023–1030, http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.31.001023, Infrared Physics & Technology 65 (2014) 94–102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infrared.2014.04.005 and Plasmonics 9 (2014) 1189–1196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11468-014-9730-3.