Expressions of concern added to more than 60 articles in chemistry journal

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Elsevier scrutinising further articles in the journal as it attempts to discover what happened

Over 60 articles published by the chemistry journal Chemosphere have had an expression of concern added to them.

Reasons given vary from article to article but include unusual changes to the authorship of the article prior to publication, potential citation manipulation, potentially undisclosed conflicts of interest by a reviewer or editor handling the peer-review process and potentially compromised or manipulated peer review.