Biotechnology Research International has retracted the article titled “Algae Oil: A Sustainable Renewable Fuel of Future” [1]. The article was found to contain a substantial amount of material from previously published articles, some without citation, including the following sources.
The previous sources are as follows:(1)Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae_fuel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_oil_fuel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_depletion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sludge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_sludge(2)D. Wogan, A.K. da Silva, M.E. Webber, and E. Stautberg, “Algae: pond powered biofuels,” Clean TX Forum, Austin, TX, November 19, 2008 [2]. (Not cited)(3)Yusuf Chisti, “Biodiesel from microalgae,” Biotechnology Advances, Volume 25, Issue 3, 2007 [3]. (Cited as reference 27)(4)Liam Brennan, Philip Owende, “Biofuels from microalgae—A review of technologies for production, processing, and extractions of biofuels and co-products,” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 14, Issue 2, 2010 [4] (Not cited)(5)Rodolfi, L., Chini Zittelli, G., Bassi, N., Padovani, G., Biondi, N., Bonini, G. and Tredici, M. R. (2009), Microalgae for oil: strain selection, induction of lipid synthesis and outdoor mass cultivation in a low‐cost photobioreactor. Biotechnol. Bioeng [5]. (Cited as reference 15)(6)GuanHua Huang, Feng Chen, Dong Wei, XueWu Zhang, Gu Chen, “Biodiesel production by microalgal biotechnology,” Applied Energy, Volume 87, Issue 1, 2010 [6]. (Not cited)