Last month, we covered the retraction of a paper by A.M.K. El-Ghonemy, of Al-Jouf University in Saudi Arabia. The engineer now has a second retraction in the same journal, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.
Here’s the notice for “Waste energy recovery in sea water reverse osmosis desalination plants, Part-1: Review”:
The article duplicates significant paragraphs of various internet sources as well as copied paragraphs from published papers. 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.
El-Ghonemy has apparently published a total of five papers in the journal.
Hat tip: Patrick
Search for author: El-Ghonemy at http://www.sciencedirect.com/
You will find 6 recent retractions by the same El-Ghonemy
Retraction notice to “Waste energy recovery in sea water reverse osmosis desalination plants, Part-1: Review” [Renew. Sustain. Energy Rev. 18 (2012) 6–22]
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 22, June 2013, Page 734
A.M.K. El-Ghonemy
Retraction notice to “A small-scale Brackish water reverse-osmosis desalination system used in northern of Saudi Arabia, case study” [Renewable Sustainable Energy Rev. 16 (2012) 4597–4605]
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 24, August 2013, Page 628
by A.M.K. El-Ghonemy
Retraction notice to “Water desalination systems powered by renewable energy sources, Review”: [Renewable and Sustainable Energy Rev. 16 (2012) 1537–1556]
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 24, August 2013, Page 629
A.M.K. El-Ghonemy
Retraction notice to “Future sustainable water desalination technologies for the Saudi Arabia, review” [Renewable Sustainable Energy Rev. 16 (2012) 6566–6597]
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 24, August 2013, Page 631
A.M.K. El-Ghonemy
Retraction notice to “Waste energy recovery in sea water reverse osmosis desalination plants, Part-2: Case study”: [Renewable Sustainable Energy Rev. 16 (2012) 4016–4028]
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 24, August 2013, Page 630
A.M.K. El-Ghonemy
Retraction notice to “Fresh water production from/by atmospheric air for arid regions, using solar energy: Review” [Renewable Sustain. Energy Rev. 16 (2012) 6384–6422]
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 22, June 2013, Page 735
A.M.K. El-Ghonemy
The professor is Egyptian, not Saudi.
As Nasir has pointed out, I too would like to point out that he is not a Saudi. He is egyptian serving as faculty member at a saudi universitty.