Corrections, retractions and withdrawals
Corrections to the Version of Record (“Corrigenda”), Retractions and Withdrawals
Correction notice
We distinguish between major and minor errors.
- All major errors are accompanied by a separate correction notice. The correction notice will provide clear details of the error and the changes that have been made to the Version of Record (VoR). Sortuz will take the following steps:
- Correct the online article;
- Add a correction notice to the article, clearly detailing the error and the correction made, as well as the location of it in the article;
- Publish the correction notice as any other journal item.
- All minor errors will include a footnote on the article detailing to the reader that the article has been corrected. Minor errors do not impact the reader’s understanding of the academic material.
- All substantive content-related modifications to the version of record must be described in a footnote identifying the changes made to the published article.
- An article with minor corrections will not be accompanied with a correction notice published separately.
In both cases, the corrected article will replace the previous version of the article.
An erratum (pl. errata) is a formal error in an article as a result of the production process from an original submission to a Version of Record. These do not usually impact the value or reader’s understanding of the academic substance, therefore, they will be amended like minor errors.
A retraction is the withdrawal of an article and its removal from the online website of the journal, as well as the statement informing of this removal and the warning that the article should be considered invalid as a source of knowledge. Sortuz will retract articles for reasons related to scientific misconduct including plagiarism, serious errors, and duplicate/concurrent publishing (self-plagiarism).
Authors may withdraw a paper by submitting a reasoned request to the journal. Withdrawal requests at this stage will be studied case by case with attention paid to the specificities of the situation and the particular reasons given by the author, and will be granted only exceptionally. Withdrawn papers have not been found to contain fatal errors that invalidate them (retractions).
