Retraction notice: Evaluation of shear strength of high-strength conventional and sustainable concretes: experiments, models and literature

The publisher of Magazine of Concrete Research wishes to retract the article Rani K, Kasilingam S (2025), “Evaluation of shear strength of high-strength conventional and sustainable concretes: experiments, models and literature”. Magazine of Concrete Research, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. Link to the cited article.. It has come to our attention that a large portion of this article is taken, without full and proper attribution, from an earlier unpublished work by Manish Kumar, ‘Experimental and numerical study on the evaluation of shear strength of high strength concrete’ (a MA dissertation submitted to Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar). The decision to retract has been informed by COPE’s guidelines on retractions and Emerald’s publishing ethics. Emerald’s editorial and originality policy guidelines make it clear that work submitted should be original, not infringe any existing copyright, or be currently under considered for publication by any other journal or publication. The authors cooperated with this investigation but were unable to provide a satisfactory explanation as to the concerns identified or sufficient justification for the originality and precedence of their own research. The publisher of the journal sincerely apologizes to the readers.