Retraction of articles

Withdrawal of an already published article (retraction) is an extreme measure and is applied in the event of the discovery of facts that were not known during the review:

• detection of facts of violation of the law and defamation;
• violation of publication ethics requirements (including detection of plagiarism in an article, concealment of a conflict of interests, the emergence of claims regarding copyright for an article or its individual parts by third parties, detection of the fact of publication of an article in another publication before the date of its publication in the journal);
• disclosure of falsifications, false or inaccurate data, especially such data, the use of which may create a risk for health;
• disclosure of serious errors (for example, incorrect interpretation of results), which casts doubt on the scientific value of the article).

See also the Rules for withdrawal (retraction) of an article from publication of the Ethics Council of the Association of Science Editors and Publishers (ASEP).

Mechanism of retracting an article

1. Authors, readers, reviewers, editors and publishers may initiate the retraction of an article by submitting a written request to the journal’s editorial board.

2. The journal’s conflict resolution committee reviews the received request and initiates an investigation, based on the results of which the published article may be retracted.

3. The decision to retract a published article is made by the journal’s conflict resolution committee if there are sufficient facts in favor of retraction. An act on the retraction of the article is drawn up and signed by the editor-in-chief.

4. The journal’s editorial board notifies the initiator of the retraction of the article in writing about the results of the review of the request.

5. If the journal’s conflict resolution committee decides to retract an article, the journal publishes information that the article has been retracted, indicating its metadata. In this case, the article is not physically removed from the published print run and the issue file on the website. The editors publish a statement on the retraction of the article and post it on the corresponding page of the issue’s contents on the journal’s official website.

6. If articles from the journal are indexed by any databases, a letter is sent to these databases stating that the article has been retracted, stating the reasons for the retraction.