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Article
withdrawal
Only used for Articles in Press which represent early versions of
articles and sometimes contain errors, or may have been accidentally
submitted twice. Occasionally, but less frequently, the articles may
represent infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple
submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data
or the like. Articles in Press (articles that have been accepted for
publication but which have not been formally published and will not yet have
the complete volume/issue/page information) that include errors, or are
discovered to be accidental duplicates of other published article(s), or are
determined to violate our journal publishing ethics guidelines in the view
of the editors (such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship,
plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like), may be “Withdrawn” from
ISISnet. Withdrawn means that the article content (HTML and PDF) is removed
and replaced with a HTML page and PDF simply stating that the article has
been withdrawn according to the Elsevier Policy on Article in Press
Withdrawal with a link to the current policy document.
Article replacement
In cases where the article, if acted upon, might pose a serious health
risk, the authors of the original article may wish to retract the flawed
original and replace it with a corrected version. In these circumstances the
procedures for retraction will be followed with the difference that the
database retraction notice will publish a link to the corrected re-published
article and a history of the document.
Corrections to published articles. If necessary, corrections of
significant errors in published articles will be published in a later issue
of the Journal. Within two months after publication, authors are requested
to bring any errors to the attention of the managing editor.
Article retraction
Infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple
submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data
or the like. Occasionally a retraction will be used to correct errors in
submission or publication. The retraction of an article by its authors or
the editor under the advice of members of the scholarly community has long
been an occasional feature of the learned world. Standards for dealing with
retractions have been developed by a number of library and scholarly bodies,
and this best practice is adopted for article retraction by ISISnet.:
1. A retraction note titled “Retraction: [article title]” signed by the
authors and/or the editor is published in the paginated part of a subsequent
issue of the journal and listed in the contents list.
2. In the electronic version, a link is made to the original article.
3. The online article is preceded by a screen containing the retraction
note. It is to this screen that the link resolves; the reader can then
proceed to the article itself.
4. The original article is retained unchanged save for a watermark on the .pdf
indicating on each page that it is “retracted.”
5. The HTML version of the document is removed.
Article removal: legal limitations
In an extremely limited number of cases, it may be necessary to remove
an article from the online database. This will only occur where the article
is clearly defamatory, or infringes others’ legal rights, or where the
article is, or we have good reason to expect it will be, the subject of a
court order, or where the article, if acted upon, might pose a serious
health risk. In these circumstances, while the metadata (Title and Authors)
will be retained, the text will be replaced with a screen indicating the
article has been removed for legal reasons.
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