Retraction notice to "Does political stability contribute to environmental sustainability? Evidence from the most politically stable economies" [Heliyon 8 (2022) e12479].

Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo, Seyi Saint Akadiri, Solomon Eghosa Uhunamure, Mehmet Altuntaş, Karabo Shale

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Article in Heliyon, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Retraction of
Does political stability contribute to environmental sustainability? Evidence from the most politically stable economies.2022

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Tomiwa Sunday AdebayoDepartment of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, North Cyprus, Mersin 10, Turkey.

Seyi Saint AkadiriResearch Department, Central Bank of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria.

Solomon Eghosa UhunamureFaculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa.

Mehmet AltuntaşFaculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Department of Economics, Nisantasi University, Turkey.

Karabo ShaleFaculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

[This retracts the article DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12479.].

Identifiers

PMID41216521

DOI10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e43540

PMCPMC12435066

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