Retraction Policy
The Editorial Board may consider retracting a publication due to the following reasons:
- the publication constitutes any forms of plagiarism or undeclared conflict of interest (see Publishing Ethics);
- third party expresses claims concerning copyrights for the article or its parts;
- the findings have previously been published elsewhere before the date of its publication in the Journal;
- serious errors have been revealed in the published article, which place its scientific value in question.
In such cases, the Executive Editor should initiate the revision and submit the case for consideration of the Editorial Board. Upon decision of the Editorial Board the Act on retraction is complied, which is signed by the Editor-in-Chief. The copy of the Act is sent to the author/s. The file of the article is not necessarily withdrawn from the issue on the Journal’s website – the editors may publish a retraction notification on the corresponding page of the Journal site. The editors should carefully evaluate the possibility of releasing a notice regarding the identified issues in the published materials.
The Editorial Board considers it a responsibility of authors and reviewers to promptly inform about unintended mistakes and other problems revealed after the publication of the article.
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is their obligation to promptly notify the Executive Editor and cooperate with the editors to retract or correct the paper. If the editors or the Publisher learn from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper or provide evidence to the editors on the correctness of the original paper.
