Article Withdrawal Policy

Manuscript Withdrawal (Before Acceptance)

The corresponding author may request manuscript withdrawal after submission (before acceptance), by providing a genuine reason. Withdrawal request received before initiating the peer-review process (normally within 5 days of submission) will be considered immediately without asking any reason.

However, after the review process gets initiated, the author may withdraw the manuscript by providing a genuine ethical reason. If any unethical reason for manuscript withdrawn get detected (even after completely withdrawn), we might take corresponding ethical action. Submitting author should consider all ethical aspects before submission (such as co-author(s) approval, institutional/funder policy, simultaneous submission, plagiarism, duplicate submission etc.).

Manuscript Withdrawal (After Acceptance)

Manuscript withdrawn will not be allowed for the accepted manuscript (whether published galley/early version or not). This may waste the valuable resources and tremendous amount of effort made by the editors, reviewers and the editorial board. If manuscripts that have been accepted for publication include scientific errors or discovered to be accidental duplication of other published article(s) or determined to violate our publishing ethics guidelines; such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, reviewer biasing, fraudulent use of data or research misconduct, it will be handled according.

Post publication withdrawal (After published)

Articles that have been published shall remain extant, exact and unaltered as far as is possible. However, some ethical issue may arise where a published article might later be corrected, replaced, retracted or even removed. Such actions must be taken seriously and can only occur under exceptional circumstances. We believe that these issues require international standards and we will adopt international standards along with recommended best practices as standards evolve and changes over time. Post-publication withdrawal may be in the form of Addendum, Duplication, Erratum, Corrigendum, Retraction, Replacement or Removal.