Irrelevant Citations on 10.3390/app112411683
Five references, namely the Ref 6, 12, 14, 15 and 38, on the article [1] bear no relevance to the statements they are intended to support. What is more, the Ref 12, 14, and 15 were cited with a same statement.
These 5 references have a same first author, BAI Bing (白冰) with the Beijing Jiaotong University. We also note that BAI was the academic editor of the article [1], too.
Our previous investigation [2] uncovered three irrelevant citations, cited wit a same statement, to BAI on another article [3]. Both the article [1] and [3] were published on a same Special Issue, where BAI acted as the guest editor. It remains unknown whether there were mis-behaviour from BAI during his handling the article [1] and [3].
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