Article Retraction and Withdrawal

Article Retraction & Withdrawal

In general, it is a principle of scientific communication that journal Editors are independently responsible for deciding which articles to publish. In making these decisions, Editors are guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by legal requirements related to libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The result of this principle is the importance of scientific archives as permanent historical records of scholarship transactions. Articles that have been published should remain in existence, precise and unaltered as far as possible. However, circumstances may sometimes arise where a published article must be retracted or even deleted. Such actions should not be taken lightly and can only occur in exceptional circumstances. In all cases, the archives at Agribiohealth (Journal of Agriculture, Biology & Health Sciences) will retain all versions of the article, including those that are retracted or deleted.

This policy has been designed to resolve these issues and considers best practices within the academic and library communities. As standards evolve and change, we will revisit this issue and welcome all input from the library and academic community. We believe that this issue requires international standards and will actively lobby for various information to establish international standards and best practices that can be adapted by the information and publishing industries.

 

Article Retraction

Articles may be retracted for scientific misconduct in cases such as multiple submissions, false claims of authorship, plagiarism, or fraudulent use of data. A statement signed by the authors must be submitted before the article can be retracted. Consent from all authors of the paper is required before the retraction can be published. The retraction notice will be published and the link to the original article clearly marked as retracted. In addition, the notice will also include the reason for the retraction and who retracted the article. The original article will not be removed from the online version and the print version of the journal but will be identified as retracted. The retraction will also be listed on the contents page.

 

Article Withdrawal

Article retraction is strongly discouraged and is only used in exceptional circumstances for an earlier version of an article that has been accepted for publication but has not yet been formally published but may have appeared online. Such versions may contain errors, may have been posted twice by mistake or may violate the journal's publishing ethical guidelines (e.g. multiple submissions, false claims of authorship, plagiarism, improper use of data, etc). In such situations, especially in case of legal/ethical violations or incorrect/inaccurate data that may pose a risk of harm if used, it may be decided to withdraw the initial version of the article from our electronic platform. Withdrawal is done by removing the article content (both HTML and PDF versions) and replacing it with an HTML and PDF page stating that the article has been withdrawn in accordance with Agribiohealth Journal's article withdrawal policy along with a link to the policy.

Additional note, if the author owns the copyright to his/her article, it does not mean that he/she has the right to retract it after publication. The integrity of the published scientific record is paramount and this policy on retraction and withdrawal still applies in such cases.

 

Article Removal 

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.

 

Article Replacement 

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.