Examining the effects of information and communications technology on green growth and environmental performance, socio-economic and environmental cost of technology generation: A pathway toward environment sustainability.

Shaoming Chen, Muhammad Tayyab Sohail, Minghui Yang

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In one paragraph

Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

3citing papers in PubMed

5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Retraction · 2025-08-06Concerns/Issues about Referencing/Attributions · Conflict of Interest · Compromised Peer Review · Investigation by Journal/Publisher · Misconduct - Official Investigation(s) and/or Finding(s) · Rogue Editor · Unreliable Results and/or Conclusions ·
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Retraction: Examining the effects of information and communications technology on green growth and environmental performance, socio-economic and environmental cost of technology generation: a pathway toward environment sustainability.2025

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Shaoming ChenInternational Business School, Guangzhou City University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.

Muhammad Tayyab SohailSchool of Public Administration, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan, China.

Minghui YangInternational Business School, Guangzhou City University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.

City University of Macau · MOGuangdong University of Foreign Studies · CNXiangtan University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human capital and ICT have a significant role in determining human development. The impacts of ICT and human capital on green growth and environmental sustainability should be explored for sustainable economic development. This research contributes to the literature on the role of ICTs and human capital in the determination of green growth and environmental performance. Based on time-series data 1990-2019, the study intends to investigate the impact of ICTs and human capital on environmental and green growth performance for China. The study reports that ICTs tend to reduce CO

Indexed as

environmentgreen growthhuman capitalICT penetrationtechnology generation

Identifiers

PMID36172239

DOI10.3389/fpsyg.2022.999045

PMCPMC9511107

OpenAlexW4295236168

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.