Instructions for withdrawing or correcting articles
According to the recommendations of the international Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Association of Science Editors and Publishers, retraction refers to a mechanism for correcting published information and alerting readers that a publication contains serious flaws or erroneous data that cannot be trusted.
Members of the editorial board are responsible for the publication of articles with known signs of unethical behavior, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, excessive self-citation by authors, conflict of interest. If the principles of publication and/or scientific ethics have been violated while writing an article, the scientific editor of the journal should retract the publication based on the decision of the editorial board. Articles can be withdrawn by the author (authors) or the editorial board of the journal. The Editorial Board performs withdrawal (retraction) of published articles in case of violation of publication and/or scientific ethics, based on the recommendations of SORE.
An article is withdrawn/retracted (retracted) if:
- - if there is clear evidence that the data obtained is unreliable or has been obtained as a result of misconduct, such as falsification of data;
- - discovery of the fact that the manuscript was published in another publication before it was published in the Journal of the National Congress of Historians;
- - detection of plagiarism in the article, including detected borrowing of figures, graphs, tables, etc.
- - the presence in the article of gross errors that can adversely affect other scientists and their research, such as miscalculation or experimental error;
- - the appearance of copyright claims on the article or parts of it by third parties;
- - the presence in the article of information contrary to the principles, standards and norms of publication and/or scientific ethics.
In such aforementioned cases, the editorial board of the journal conducts an inspection, according to the results of which the article can be withdrawn/ withdrawn (retracted) from publication. For this purpose, an act of retraction of the article from publication is drawn up, which is confirmed and signed by the scientific editor. A copy of the act is sent to the author for correspondence of the article.
After that, the article is marked as retracted on the journal's website with the reasons. The Editorial Board publishes information about the withdrawal (retraction) of the article on the main page of the Journal's website and places the information, after the withdrawal (retraction) of the article, in the next issue of the Journal.
The editorial board of the journal responsibly, objectively and attentively considers all justified appeals about the detected violations in the published issues.
The editorial board considers it the responsibility and obligation of authors and reviewers to inform the editorial board as promptly as possible about errors and irregularities detected by them after the publication of the material.
