Article Retraction Policy

Occasionally a retraction will be used if infringements of publishing ethics, such as use of fake data, research misconduct, multiple submission, plagiarism etc. get detected. The retraction of an article by its authors or the editor can take place only after properly investigating the case under the advice of members of the scholarly community. Based on standard advice by scholarly community (COPE, ICMJE) for dealing with retractions, the following best practice for retraction by JRAHS has been adopted.

Case will be considered under retraction policy only if research integrity got challenged (by duplicate publication, plagiarized, bias/fake reviewing fake data, false results). Any other misconduct which does not affect research integrity of manuscript (such as author dispute, institution/funding policy, simultaneous submission) will not be considered under retraction.

Retraction case will be considered in accordance with COPE guideline only if serious article integrity gets detected after complete investigation and not able to cover by corrigendum.

A retraction notes titled “Retraction: [article title]” will be published in the paginated part of a subsequent issue of the journal and listed in the contents list. Retraction note will contain retraction decision and a link to the original article.

The original article (pdf) will be retained unchanged with added “Retracted” watermark on each page. Crossmark data will be updated with retraction status of the article and a link to the retraction notice.