Retraction and Withdrawal

It is generally a principle of scholarly communication that the journal Editor or proceedings are solely and independently responsible for deciding which articles submitted might be published. By manufacturing this decision, the Editor is guided by the journal’s editorial board policies and constrained by legal requirements related to slander, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The result of this principle is the significance of scientific archives as permanent historical records of scholarship transactions. Published articles should remain extant, exact, and unaltered as far as possible. However, circumstances can occasionally arise where an article is published that must be retracted or removed later. Such actions must not be undertaken lightly and can only occur under extraordinary circumstances. Throughout cases, our archives at IJMP will hold all versions of articles, including those recalled or deleted. 

 

This policy has been designed to resolve this problem and to consider the best practices in the community of academics and libraries. If standards develop and change, we will revisit this problem and receive all the input from the library and academic community. We believe this problem needs an international standard and will actively lobby for various information to establish an international standard and the best practices that industrial information and publishing could adopt. 

 

Articles may be retracted due to scientific errors in cases such as multiple submissions, false authorship claims, plagiarism, or fraudulent use of data. The author must submit a signed statement before the article can be withdrawn. The consent of all the paper authors is required before a repeal can be published. The retraction notification will be published, and the link to the original article will be marked as cancelled. In addition, the notification will also include withdrawal reasons and who retracted the article. The original article will not be removed from online and print journal versions but will be identified as retracted. Retraction will also be listed on the content page.

 

Article withdrawal is strongly discouraged and only used in exceptional circumstances for an early version of an article that has been accepted for publication but has not been officially published yet and may have already appeared online. The version may contain errors, have been posted twice, or violate journal publishing ethics guidelines (e.g., multiple submissions, false claims about authorship, plagiarism, improper use of data, etc). In such situations, especially in case of legal/ethical violation or false/inaccurate data that could pose a risk of harm if it is used, it merely can be decided to withdraw the article's initial version from our electronic platform. Withdrawal stands with the article content (both HTML and PDF versions) is removed and replaced with HTML and PDF pages stating that the article has been withdrawn following Indonesian Journal Publisher’s withdrawing article policy along with a link to the policy.

 

Additionally, if the author has his/her own copyright for the article, it doesn’t mean he/she has the right to withdraw it after publication. The integrity of the published scientific records is paramount and this policy on revocation and withdrawal still applies in such cases.

 

In an extremely limited number of cases, the published article may need to be removed from our online platform. It will only happen that if an article is clearly defamatory, or violate another person’s legal rights, or where the article is located, or we have the strong reason to expect, being the subject of a court order, or where the article, if acted upon, may pose a serious health risk. In such circumstances, while the metadata (i.e. title and author information) of the article will be retained, the text will be replaced with a screen indicating that the article has been removed for legal reasons.

 

In cases where the article, if followed upon up, could pose a serious health risk, the author of the original paper may wish to recall the original document and replace it with the corrected version. In such circumstances, the above removal procedure will be followed by differences that the article retraction notification will contain revised link and republished it along with the document history.