Withdrawal of an article

Withdrawal of an article

Withdrawal of an article is only possible during the preparatory phase of printing the journal if the material contains errors that cannot be remedied or has been accidentally sent for publication to another journal. This measure also applies if the article does not comply with the provisions of the code of professional ethics, such as multiple submissions, fraudulent authorship, plagiarism, falsification of data, copyright infringement, etc. Articles accepted for publication, for which serious errors have been identified after evaluation, are accidental duplicates of other articles already published or violate professional ethics, will be removed from the journal’s portfolio 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:

The original article will remain unchanged except for a watermark on the PDF indicating “Retracted” on each page.

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;