Article retraction
Regulation on Article Retraction
1. Regulations on retraction is a local regulatory act of the Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution for Higher Education Perm State University (hereinafter referred to as PSU; also known as Perm State National Research University) and describes the procedure for retracting a published article in the event that there have been detected violations of ethical norms, incorrect data, plagiarism, or misrepresentation, this misleading readers and editors.
2. The rules for retraction of published articles from scientific journals and other publications (conference proceedings, collections of articles, etc.) are based on the guidelines, recommendations, and standards of international professional organizations, first of all, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Council on Ethics of Scientific Publications of the ASEP (Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers, transliterated from Russian and abbreviated as ANRI) as well as other professional Russian and foreign organizations.
3. Retraction is aimed at correcting published information, notifying the authors of the article, other authors, and readers about the illegitimacy of using the results of the retracted article in their research, ensuring the integrity of bona fide research, as well as protecting the reputation of the journal in order to maintain readers' trust in the quality of its content.
4. Retraction is not intended to punish authors who have committed violations. Exceptions may be cases of malicious violations of ethics, when journals refuse to accept in the future articles by such authors.
5. Retraction is carried out following an official request submitted to the journal by the author(s) or other persons with a statement about the violations detected. It can also be initiated by the decision of the editors, editorial board, or publisher. Anonymous statements cannot be grounds for initiating the retraction process.
6. In the event that a minor part of an article (e.g., a sentence) constitutes unlawful citation/plagiarism, it is possible not to retract, but to correct the article (edit the article without its retraction).
7. Retraction is carried out after thorough investigation of the circumstances that have led to the publication of false information.
8. In the event that duplicate publication is found in two or more sources (journals), the editors discuss the situation among themselves and agree on any of the following options:
8.1. The text is retracted simultaneously by all the sources (journals) that have published the article.
8.2. An agreement is reached on one of the versions of the text that will not be retracted from the journal. An earlier publication is preferred. If the duplication of the publication was due to missed deadlines and a delayed response to the authors by the first journal, which published the article simultaneously with the second journal or later, and also due to the lack of transparency in the actions of the former, the article should be retracted from the first journal.
9. If it is impossible to obtain convincing evidence of the authenticity of a publication (for example, if the authors provide contradictory information; the institution where the authors work refuses to investigate alleged violations or make public the results of such investigations; if the investigations were not conducted fairly or took an unreasonably long time), the editors should promptly publish an expression of concern regarding the text, without retracting the publication until convincing proof of violations is obtained. If over time there appears a convincing proof demonstrating that the article is unreliable, the article should be retracted from the journal; if the doubts are not confirmed, it is necessary to publish a corresponding comment in the journal.
10. If retraction is related to the actions of some authors of the article but not all of them, this must be mentioned in a retraction notice.
11. Retraction does not depend on how long ago the article were violations have been revealed was published.
12. Retraction of an article does not imply its removal from the journal or from the website, but the information about violations detected warns against its further use. Only in the exceptional event that the text is considered capable of having harmful effects on society and science, an article can be removed from the website.
