Expression of concern: “Linear manipulator: Motion control of an n-link robotic arm mounted on a mobile slider” Heliyon 9 (2023) e12867

Key Points

• The investigation examines the citation practices of authors in a specific robotics article.
• Conducted a citation analysis of the article in question
• Reviewed the author contributions to cited papers
• Identified instances of co-authorship among cited works
• 23 papers authored by the key authors were cited in the article
• 14 articles cited were authored by Sandeep Ameet Kumar
• 13 articles cited were authored by Bibhya Sharma
• 3 articles each were cited from Ravinesh Chand and Ronal Pranil Chand
• Self-citations were widespread among the authors