RETRACTED: Understanding farmers' safety behaviour towards pesticide exposure and other occupational risks: The case of Zanjan, Iran

Sci Total Environ. 2018 Mar:616-617:1190-1198. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.201. Epub 2017 Oct 26.

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of request of the Editors-in-Chief. After a thorough investigation, the Editors have concluded that the acceptance of this article was partly based upon the positive advice of one illegitimate reviewer report. The report was submitted from an email account which was provided by the corresponding author Christos A. Damalas as a suggested reviewer during the submission of the article. Although purportedly a real reviewer account, the Editors have concluded that this was not of an appropriate, independent reviewer. 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 reviewer whose identity was assumed and to the readers of the journal that this deception was not detected during the submission process.

Keywords: Attitude; Knowledge; Occupational hazards; Safety behaviour; Self-efficacy.

Publication types

  • Retracted Publication

MeSH terms

  • Air Pollutants, Occupational / analysis*
  • Farmers*
  • Farms
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice*
  • Humans
  • Iran
  • Occupational Exposure / prevention & control*
  • Occupational Exposure / statistics & numerical data
  • Pesticides / analysis*
  • Safety*

Substances

  • Air Pollutants, Occupational
  • Pesticides