Retracted article: Radioactivity Concentration and Dose Assessment for soil samples of Western Ghats

Abstract

I, the Editor, Harpal Minhas, hereby wholly retract this article as it contains significant overlap including the reuse of data with the article “Distribution of radionuclide in the forest soils (Western Ghats-India)”, P. K. Manigandan, S. Selvasekarapandian and N. Manikandan, Iranian Journal of Radiation Research, 2007, 5, 17-22 without sufficient attribution to this earlier work being given. The principal author declined to sign the retraction notice and did not agree to the retraction. Signed: Harpal Minhas, Editor. Retraction published 26 February 2014.