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Retraction: Recent advances in 2D transition metal dichalcogenide-based photodetectors: a review
Anique
Ahmed
*a,
Muhammad Zahir
Iqbal
a,
Alaa
Dahshan
b,
Sikandar
Aftab
c,
Hosameldin Helmy
Hegazy
b and
El Sayed
Yousef
b
aFaculty of Engineering Sciences, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. E-mail: aniqueahmed1995@gmail.com
bDepartment of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, P.O. Box 9004, Abha, Saudi Arabia
cDepartment of Intelligent Mechatronics Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, South Korea
First published on 26th January 2026
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Recent advances in 2D transition metal dichalcogenide-based photodetectors: a review’ by Anique Ahmed et al., Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 2097–2120, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3NR04994A.
The Royal Society of Chemistry, with the agreement of the named authors, wholly retracts this Nanoscale article due to evidence of manipulation of the publication process.
Following publication, we were contacted by two of the listed authors, Muhammad Zahir Iqbal and Sikandar Aftab, stating that this article had been submitted to Nanoscale without their knowledge and the listed authorship was inaccurate. In addition, a previous version of the manuscript had been submitted to a different journal with a different author list.
After comparison of the previously submitted version and the published version, it was apparent that the manuscripts were very similar but with different reference lists. Following an investigation, it was established that citation manipulation had occurred as a number of the original references were inappropriately replaced during the revision process without informing the editor.
Given the significance of these concerns, the Editor has lost confidence in the authenticity of the authorship and the accuracy and appropriateness of the references.
Anique Ahmed disagrees with this retraction.
Alaa Dahshan, Hosameldin Helmy Hegazy and El Sayed Yousef were contacted regarding the retraction but did not respond.
Signed: Muhammad Zahir Iqbal and Sikandar Aftab
Date: 16th December 2025
Retraction endorsed by Jeremy Allen, Executive Editor, Nanoscale
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