Retraction notice to “Critical thinking of music educators as a factor in creative music pedagogy” (Thinking Skills and Creativity (2021) 41, (S1871187121000997), (10.1016/j.tsc.2021.100884))


Zhao H. Narikbayeva L. Wu Y.
December 2022Elsevier Ltd

Thinking Skills and Creativity
2022#46

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors-in-Chief. After a thorough investigation, the Editors have concluded that the acceptance of this article was partly based upon the positive advice of one illegitimate reviewer report. The report was submitted from an email account which was provided to the journal as a suggested reviewer during the submission of the article. Although purportedly a real reviewer account, the Editors have concluded that this was not of an appropriate, independent reviewer. This manipulation of the peer-review process represents a clear violation of the fundamentals of peer review, our publishing policies, and publishing ethics standards. Apologies are offered to the reviewer whose identity was assumed and to the readers of the journal that this deception was not detected during the submission process.



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Literature and Artistic College, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China
Department of Music Education and Choreography, Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
College of Music and Dance, Guizhou Minzu University, Guizhou, China

Literature and Artistic College
Department of Music Education and Choreography
College of Music and Dance

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