“…A few years later, typical textbooks on spectroscopy [3] scarcely resort to the Kratzer potential and today no spectroscopist would take it seriously. However, several authors have recently shown some interest in the Kratzer potential and even proposed some variants [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12], like the screened Kratzer potential [4,5,10], the screened cosine Kratzer potential [6], the Hulten-screened Kratzer potential [7], the improved screened Kratzer potential [8], the improved Kratzer potential [9], the shifted screened Kratzer potential [11] and the harmonic plus screened Kratzer potential [12].…”