Incorrect method for calculation of grey water footprint in several articles
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00020711%3A_____%2F22%3A10154718" target="_blank" >RIV/00020711:_____/22:10154718 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969721071242?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969721071242?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152048" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152048</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Incorrect method for calculation of grey water footprint in several articles
Original language description
The aim of research is to acquire new knowledge, discover new practices and methods, or simply improve existing ones. Sometimes these are dead ends, and the chosen direction of research is incorrect. This can even happen when the underlying assumptions may sound logical. Fu et al. use the incorrect method for the calculation of grey water footprint in their article "Measurement and driving factors of grey water footprint efficiency in Yangtze River Basin". Therefore, the results are biased. The results of greywater footprint for industry and households are underestimated, which emphasizes the contribution of agriculture to the total water footprint. In this Letter to Editors, numerical proof is provided that the used equation is incorrect. Unfortunately, there are three other articles which use the same incorrect equation. Two of these articles were published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. The editors are asked to initialize a correction process of these articles because a transparent corrections process is essential to assist in the maintenance of public confidence in research.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20701 - Environmental and geological engineering, geotechnics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
ISSN
0048-9697
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
824
Issue of the periodical within the volume
29.11.2021
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
3
Pages from-to
152048
UT code for WoS article
000807506300003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85127773327