Retraction notice to “Tight oil accumulation mechanisms of Triassic Yanchang Formation Chang 7 Member, Ordos Basin, China”

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This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor.The authors have plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared in [Journal of China University of Mining & Technology, 45 (2016) 754–764. http://zgkd.cbpt.cnki.net/WKD/WebPublication/paperDigest.aspx?paperID=b8b04bba-3a40-4290-919c-a16475261903]. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.