Legal limitations of the publisher, copyright holder or author(s), infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submissions, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or any major misconduct require retraction of an article. Occasionally a retraction can be used to correct numerous serious errors, which cannot be covered by publishing corrections. Papers that are found to have been published elsewhere will be retracted by the retraction policy of the journal. If authors have used their own previously published study, or study that is currently under review, as the basis for a submitted manuscript, they are required to cite the previous paper and indicate how their submitted manuscript offers novel contributions beyond those of the previous work.
In case the manuscript satisfies the software’s control on plagiarism, and subsequently, it turns out that it has already been published in another journal, it will be retracted from publication by the Retraction policy of the journal.
Redundant publications involve an inappropriate division of study outcomes into several articles and this is not acceptable.
The retraction policy of the Advanced Technologies journal is based on the fact that minor errors in the accepted manuscript can be substantially corrected after the publication, while due to heavy abuse manuscripts can be discarded.
A retraction may be published by the Editor-in-Chief, the author(s), or both parties consensually. The paper should be retracted as soon as possible after the Editor-in-Chief is convinced that the publication is seriously flawed and misleading (or is redundant or plagiarised). Notices of retraction should mention the reasons and basis for the retraction, to distinguish cases of misconduct from those of honest error. Retracted articles will not be removed from electronic archives but their retracted status will be indicated.
The retraction takes the form of a separate item listed in the contents and labeled as “Retraction”. In SCIndeks, as the journals’ primary full-text database, a two-way communication (HTML link) between the original work and the retraction is established. The original article is retained unchanged, except for a watermark on the PDF indicating on each page that it is “retracted”.
Retractions are published according to the requirements of COPE operationalized by CEON/CEES as the journal indexer and aggregator.