In principle, journal editors can not independently decide which articles shall be published. In making decisions regarding publishing, editors are guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and are limited by applicable legal requirements relating to defamation, copyright infringement, double publishing, and plagiarism. Articles that have been published will remain extant, exact and unaltered as far as is possible. However, under certain circumstances can arise where articles that have been published must then be withdrawn or even deleted. Such actions should not be carried out except in exceptional circumstances.

A retraction of articles that have been published can be initiated by journal editors, by authors and/or their institutions. In certain cases the retraction must be accompanied by an apology for the previous mistakes and/or expressions of gratitude to those who revealed the error to the author. A retraction of published scientific articles must be accompanied by a statement that the original article must not be published and that data and conclusions should not be used as part of the basis for future research.

This article retraction rule is also based on the COPE Retraction Guidelines.

Article withdrawal and consequences

The procedure for withdrawing articles in the DIGLOSIA journal is classified into two main categories based on the initiator and the underlying reasons. First is the withdrawal initiated by the Editor. This step is taken if errors are found in the early version of the article or if an accidental duplicate submission to another publisher occurs. Furthermore, the Editor holds full authority to withdraw a manuscript if serious violations of scientific ethical codes are detected, such as plagiarism, fraudulent authorship claims, or data manipulation. Under these conditions, the Editor reserves the right to withdraw the manuscript without prior notice to the author, whether the manuscript is currently being processed or has already been officially accepted.

Second is the withdrawal based on the author's awareness or request. If authors realize there is an ethical code violation in their manuscript, they are required to submit an official withdrawal statement addressed to the Editor. On the other hand, authors are also permitted to withdraw manuscripts for personal reasons, provided the manuscript has not yet been published online on the journal's official website. However, it must be emphasized that authors are not allowed to request the withdrawal or replacement of a manuscript that has reached the "ready for publication" stage for any reason. It is important for authors to consider that withdrawing a manuscript for personal reasons after it has passed the review stage or after being accepted will carry serious consequences. The author and their affiliated institution will be placed on a blacklist for one full year. During this sanction period, the author is prohibited from resubmitting any manuscripts to DIGLOSIA for one year starting from the date of withdrawal.

Article retraction

A retraction is carried out if an article is indicated to have Infringements of scientific ethical codes, such as double submissions, false claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, fake authors or the like. Also, a retraction will be used to correct errors in submission or publication. A retraction of an article by the author or editor under the advice of the editorial board of the DIGLOSIA. There are several forms of recraction carried out by DIGLOSIA, i.e.:
1. If the infragements of the scientific code of ethics are indicated before the article published, the editor will return the manuscript to the author accompanied by a retraction letter from the Chief Editor;
2. If the infragements of the scientific code of ethics are indicated after the article published, the original article is retained unchanged save for a watermark on the PDF file indicating on each page that it is “retracted.”

Article removal: legal limitations

In an extremely limited number of cases, it may be necessary to remove an article from the online database of DIGLOSIA. This will only occur where the article is clearly defamatory, hoax, infringes others’ legal rights, a court order, and endangering state security. 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.

Article replacement

DIGLOSIA does not provide the facility to replace or correct articles that have been published and are available online on the website. If an error occurs in a published article that is available online due to the mistake of the author(s), the editor only offers the option of Article Retraction, in accordance with the information in the previous point's explanation. This does not apply if the error is due to editor negligence.

 

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