Owing to a Publisher error Declaration of Competing Interest statements were not included in the published versions of the following articles, that appeared in previous issues of Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science

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1.“Measurement and validation of tsunami eigen values for the various water wave conditions” (Journal of Ocean Engi- neering and Science, 2020;5: 41-54) doi: 10.1016/j.joes.2019.08.001 .

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2.“Numerical solutions of nonlinear fractional Wu-Zhang system for water surface versus three approximate schemes”(Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, 2019;4: 144-148) doi: 10.1016/j.joes.2019.03.002.

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3.“Role of mesoscale eddies on atmospheric convection during summer monsoon season over the Bay of Bengal: a case study” (Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, 2018;3: 343-354) doi: 10.1016/j.joes.2018.11.002.

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4.“An assessment of oil spill detection using Sentinel 1 SAR-C images” (Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, 2020;5: 116-135) doi: 10.1016/j.joes.2019.09.004.

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5.“Effect of Coriolis constant on Geophysical Korteweg-de Vries equation” (Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, 2019;4: 113-121) doi: 10.1016/j.joes.2019.02.002.

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6.“On hydrodynamic analysis of stepped planing crafts” (Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, 2019;4: 238-251) doi: 10.1016/j.joes.2019.04.007 .

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7.“Numerical studies for solving fractional integro-differential equations” (Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, 2018;3: 127-132) doi: 10.1016/j.joes.2018.05.004.

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8.“Solving a class of boundary value problems and fractional Boussinesq-like equation with beta-derivatives by fractional- order exponential trial functions” (Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, 2020;5: 197-204) doi: 10.1016/j.joes.2019.11.003 .

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9.“Impact of fifth order dispersion on soliton solution for higher order NLS equation with variable coefficients” (Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, 2020;5: 205-213) doi: 10.1016/j.joes.2019.11.002.

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10.“Population size estimation of chirp and grunt generating fish and mammals using cross-correlation based technique with three acoustic sensors” (Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, 2019;4: 183-191) doi: 10.1016/j.joes.2019.04.003 .

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11.“Application of SWAN model for storm generated wave simulation in the Canadian Beaufort Sea” (Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, 2020;5: 19-34) doi: 10.1016/j.joes.2019.07.003 .

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12.“Minimizing transmission loss using inspired ant colony optimization and Markov Chain Monte Carlo in underwater WSN environment” (Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, 2019;4: 317-327) doi: 10.1016/j.joes.2019.05.007 .

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13.“Cost consequence-based reliability analysis of bursting and buckling failure modes in subsea pipelines” (Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, 2019;4: 64-76) doi: 10.1016/j.joes.2019.01.001 .

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14.“A standard formulation for the installation of suction caissons in sand” (Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, 2019;4: 395-405) doi: 10.1016/j.joes.2019.07.001 .

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15.“Numerical investigation of modal and fatigue performance of a horizontal axis tidal current turbine using fluid-structure interaction” (Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, 2019;4: 328-337) doi: 10.1016/j.joes.2019.05.008 .

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