Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Volume 2021 (2021), Article ID 7259208, 1 page
https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/7259208

Retraction

Retracted: Essential Oils Loaded in Nanosystems: A Developing Strategy for a Successful Therapeutic Approach

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Received 17 December 2020; Accepted 17 December 2020; Published 19 February 2021

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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine has retracted the article titled “Essential Oils Loaded in Nanosystems: A Developing Strategy for a Successful Therapeutic Approach” [1] due to high level of text similarity with previously published articles [2–6], of which [2, 4] were not cited.

A reassessment of the article concluded that large areas of overlapping text were identified throughout the article, especially in Section 5, “EO-Loaded Nanodelivery Systems.” The article is therefore being retracted with the agreement of the editorial board and the authors.

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