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Retraction Guidelines In order to maintain the integrity and virtue of the journals scholar content, we follow COPE guidelines (Please refer COPE Council.COPE Guidelines: A short Guide to ethical Editing for new Editors.May 2019 .(Version 3.). DOI:https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.8 The journal follows COPE’s retraction guidelines for retraction process. Please refer COPE Council.COPE Retraction guidelines- English. DOI:https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.4 Reasons for Retraction
2. If the data's or results or observations earlier published in any other journal if mentioned in the paper detected or reported, without citing appropriately or without procuring of relevant permissions, or of any reduntant publications.
b COPE’S Authorship Discussion Document (PDF) available at https://publicationethics.org/files/COPE_DD_A4_Authorship_SEPT19_SCREEN_AW.pdf 4. Conduction of unethical experiments or surveys or research. Retraction Process Inorder to provide ethical and rational scholarly content in our journal and following COPE guidelines DOI:https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.4 we follow retraction process towards publishing best scholarly content . We try to handle the best practises along with COPE Guidelines (Please refer COPE Flow charts available at DOI:https://publicationethics.org/node/19631 )for retraction of paper and we follow the following process, 1. Complainant or whistle blower can directly drop an email to the address available at “contact” of our journal web page detailing the title , volume, issue and nature and details of the complaint. Once decision is arrived for retraction , the article would not be removed but retraction statement would be published in a separate page in the journal and the link of the original published page will be provided. Water mark “Retracted” would be included in the article and would be retained in same volume and page to ensure scientific record maintenance. Thus the following will be executed in the case of “retraction” Article withdrawals: Articles that are in press and have been accepted for publishing but not allotted any volume, issue,page number can also end in withdrawals. Those unpublished paper but still in the process of copy editing or uncorrected or under typeset but not allotted any DOI number can be withdrawn at any stage due to various reasons such as unresolvable typo errors, referencing format mistakes, bogus claims or plagiarism , data manipulations or multiple submissions or ethical or scientific misconduct or any scientific or other similar errors if observed lately . It would be intimated to the respective author and withdrawal decision would be taken by the managing editor in consultation with the Editor in Chief. Article removal The published article can end in removal for the following reasons, On removal of the article , the title and the author will be retained along with the text mentioning the reason for removal of the article. Article replacement If any published article due to any reason been retracted, and the reasons been resolved by the author to the satisfaction of the journal’s policy and if approved by the journal and the corrected article has no reason for retraction can be replaced for the old retracted article.But in this case the same process of retraction will be followed but in addition, a link for this corrected republished article would be provided in the retraction notice. Expression of concern In any misleading content, if found in the published paper and if deducted by the editor or any member of the editorial board member, and if they want to make the reader aware of those content without retracting the paper , the journal issues “Expression of Concern”. This editorial “Expression of concern” makes the reader aware about the flaws that influences the paper's integrity. But this is issued if their is any undecided conclusion of any investigations of the respective article or judgement would be unavailable for undetermined period and if found rationale for issuing the expression of concern.Please refer COPE case 17-02 Data manipulation and institute's internal review |
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Everyone is recommended to follow these COPE Guidelines for reference and strict compliance.