Complexity has retracted the article titled “An Analytical Investigation of Fractional-Order Biological Model Using an Innovative Technique” [1] due to substantial similarity to a previous work by other authors [2]. The earlier article was not cited, though another article by those authors was cited in passing as reference [40]. The aim and structure of [1, 2] is the same, and many of the equations are nearly identical in notation: examples 2 and 3 in each article are essentially the same and example 4 in [1] is very similar to example 1 in [2], with only example 1 in [1] being original.
The authors did not agree to retraction, arguing that [2] relied on their own earlier article that introduced the Iterative Laplace transform method, citing it and using its equations [3]. They said [2] also relied on another article [4]. Code files for Maple worksheets (.mw files) are available in Supplementary Materials.
Supplementary Materials
Code files for Maple worksheets. (Supplementary Materials)