Correction to: The potential of smart factories in reducing environmental emissions: the evidence from Chinese listed manufacturing firms (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, (2024), 11, 1, (1105), 10.1057/s41599-024-03623-z)

Correction to: Humanities and Social Sciences Communicationshttps://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03623-z, published online 29 August 2024 In the version of the article initially published, the values of “R²” were incorrectly reported as the value of adjusted R² in Tables 6, 7 and 9. The other elements of Tables 6, 7 and 9 remain same, and the interpretation of the results remains unchanged. In Table 6, the “R²” row originally read “–0.0548, –0.637, –0.559, –0.628” and has now been corrected to “0.4160, 0.0947, 0.1380, 0.0993”. In Table 7, the “R²” row originally read “–0.295, –0.645, –0.564, –0.629” and has now been corrected to “0.2830, 0.0901, 0.1350, 0.0991”. In Table 9, the “R²” row originally read “–0.644, –0.843, –0.637” and has now been corrected to “0.0905, 0.0906, 0.0947”. These corrections have been made to the HTML and PDF versions of the article.