Wang had been removed from his position as Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Trans on Intelligent Vehicles (https://ieee-itss.org/about/officers/past) prior to this; and IEEE has investigated multiple T-IV articles involving Wang:
So those retractions (seem to be peer review related) combined with the removal from the position of Editor-in-Chief, suggest something along the lines of editorial interference/manipulation of peer review.
Consider, for example, this retraction notice for a paper published by Fei-Yue Wang in the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles with the explanation "The article did not meet IEEE requirements for independent peer review prior to acceptance." https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10759277
Wang had been removed from his position as Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Trans on Intelligent Vehicles (https://ieee-itss.org/about/officers/past) prior to this; and IEEE has investigated multiple T-IV articles involving Wang:
So those retractions (seem to be peer review related) combined with the removal from the position of Editor-in-Chief, suggest something along the lines of editorial interference/manipulation of peer review.Consider, for example, this retraction notice for a paper published by Fei-Yue Wang in the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles with the explanation "The article did not meet IEEE requirements for independent peer review prior to acceptance." https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10759277