You are both true in a certain sense. It is true that this is not the core of
the Rietveld refinement per se, but we don’t have an “official” term to call a
refinement of a powder pattern using crystallographic parameters. Hence I tried
to call it Rietveld-like or extended Rietveld.
The alternat
I sympathise with Luca. There is no generally accepted name for this kind
of profile refinement, as there is for Pawley or Le Bail refinement, terms
that are well understood. I would simply call it *Profile Refinement*, as
Rietveld did, specifying *Quantitative Phase Analysis* where that is
appropr
Good new from PubPeer:Virgil OptasanuHi. I am one of the co-authors. Thanks for these warnings. It does indeed appear that there are problems with this image with an intention to manipulate data. Whatever the reason for this manipulation, it is completely unacceptable. I will investigate to find