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Retraction Note: Assessing cardiorespiratory fitness of soccer players: is test specificity the issue?–a review

Sports Medicine - Open volume 5, Article number: 42 (2019) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 19 June 2018

Correction to: Sports Med Open (2018) 4:28.

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40798-018-0134-3

The editors have retracted this article [1] because it contains substantial text and figure overlap with the following articles [2,3,4,5]. The first author, Monèm Jemni, has not confirmed whether he agrees or disagrees with this retraction; the second and third authors, Mohammad Shoaib Prince and Julien S. Baker, agree with this retraction.

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  1. Sport Science Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, 1396 Al Tarfa, 2713, Doha, 2713, Qatar

    Monèm Jemni & Mohammad Shoaib Prince

  2. Institute of Clinical Exercise and Health Science, Applied Physiology Research Laboratory, School of Science and Sport, University of the West of Scotland, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, ML3 OJB, Scotland

    Julien S. Baker

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Jemni, M., Prince, M.S. & Baker, J.S. Retraction Note: Assessing cardiorespiratory fitness of soccer players: is test specificity the issue?–a review. Sports Med - Open 5, 42 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40798-019-0217-9

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