Retraction Policy

Retraction Policy

Retraction of an article may occur if serious violations of research or publication ethics are identified after publication.

Grounds for retraction may include:

• plagiarism;
• fabrication or falsification of data;
• significant errors affecting the reliability of results;
• duplicate publication;
• other forms of academic misconduct.

The decision to retract an article is made by the Editorial Board following an appropriate review process.

In the case of retraction:

• the article remains in the journal archive;
• a retraction notice explaining the reasons is published on the article page;
• bibliographic databases are informed of the retracted status of the publication.