RETRACTED: Improving the decision-making for sustainable demolition waste management by combining a BIM-based life cycle sustainability assessment framework and hybrid MCDA approach
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RETRACTED: Improving the decision-making for sustainable demolition waste management by combining a BIM-based life cycle sustainability assessment framework and hybrid MCDA approach
At the request of the Journal Editor and the Publisher, the following article has been retracted for reasons of redundant publication.
Han D, Kalantari M, Rajabifard A. Improving the decision-making for sustainable demolition waste management by combining a BIM-based life cycle sustainability assessment framework and hybrid MCDA approach. Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy. 2024;43(7):1086-1098. doi:10.1177/0734242X241291941
The above article has substantial unreferenced overlap to another article:
Han D, Rajabifard A. Improving the Decision-Making for Sustainable Demolition Waste Management by Combining a Building Information Modelling-Based Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Framework and Hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision-Aiding Approach. Recycling. 2024; 9(4):70. https://doi.org/10.3390/recycling9040070
The author stated that the overlap arose because the manuscript was submitted to another journal while it was under review at Waste Management & Research.
The Editor in Chief evaluated these articles and deemed the articles to contain significant overlap. Due to this assessment the article has been retracted.
Author Dongchen Han did not agree with retraction. The other authors did not respond.
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