Article Withdrawal

Withdrawal of an Article

Withdrawal is allowed exclusively during the preparatory process prior to publication, and only if the material includes irreparable errors or was inadvertently submitted to another venue. Withdrawal may occur if the article violates the code of professional ethics, including multiple submissions, false authorship, plagiarism, data falsification, copyright infringement, etc. Articles selected for publication that belong to these categories will be retracted by the editorial team.

Withdrawal of a Published Article

This also applies to previously published works that contravene the professional ethics code (including multiple submissions, false authorship claims, plagiarism, and fraudulent or misleading data). Withdrawal may be instigated by the authors or the editor-in-chief, contingent upon insights from the scholarly community.

Steps include:

• A retraction notice titled “Retraction of the article: [article title]” signed by the authors and/or editor-in-chief will be published in the next print issue;
• In the next electronic issue, a link to the original article will be added;
• A pop-up screen with the retraction notice will precede the online article;
• The original article will remain unchanged except for a watermark on the PDF indicating “Retracted” on each page.