Article Withdrawal Policy

It is a general principle of scholarly communication that the editor of a learned journal is solely and independently responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal shall be published. In making this decision, the editor is guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board and constrained by applicable legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. An outcome of this principle is the importance of the scholarly archive as a permanent historical record of scholarly activities. Articles that have been published shall remain extant, exact, and unaltered as far as possible. However, on very rare occasions, circumstances may arise where a published article must later be retracted or even removed. Such actions must not be undertaken lightly and can only occur under exceptional circumstances. In all cases, the official archives of Government: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan will retain all article versions, including retracted or otherwise removed articles. This policy has been designed to address these concerns and consider current best practices in scholarly publishing and library communities. As standards evolve and change, Government: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan will revisit this issue and welcome input from scholarly and library communities. We believe these issues require international standards, and we support efforts by various information bodies to establish international standards and best practices that the publishing and information industries can adopt. See also the National Library of Medicine’s policy on retractions and the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) concerning corrections and retractions.

Article Withdrawal

This procedure is only used for Articles in Press, which represent early versions of articles and may contain errors or have been accidentally submitted more than once. Occasionally, although less frequently, articles may represent infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, or similar misconduct.

Articles in Press—articles that have been accepted for publication but have not been formally published and do not yet have complete volume, issue, and page information—that contain errors, are discovered to be accidental duplicates of other published articles, or are determined by the editors to violate the publication ethics guidelines of Government: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, or similar misconduct, may be “withdrawn” from the archives of Government: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan.

“Withdrawn” means that the article content in HTML and PDF formats is removed and replaced with an HTML page and PDF document stating that the article has been withdrawn in accordance with the Article in Press Withdrawal Policy of Government: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan, with a link to the current policy document.

Article Retraction

Infringements of professional ethical codes include multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, or similar misconduct. Occasionally, a retraction may also be used to correct errors in submission or publication. The retraction of an article by its authors or the editor, based on advice from members of the scholarly community, has long been an occasional feature of scholarly publishing. Standards for dealing with retractions have been developed by several library and scholarly bodies, and Government: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan adopts the following best practices for article retraction:

A retraction note titled “Retraction: [Article Title],” signed by the authors and/or the editor, is published in the paginated section of a subsequent issue of the journal and listed in its table of contents.
In the electronic version, a link is provided to the original article.
The online article is preceded by a screen containing the retraction note. The link will direct readers to this screen, after which they may proceed to the article itself.
The original article is retained unchanged, except for a watermark on each page of the PDF indicating that it has been “Retracted.”
The HTML version of the document is removed.

The retraction mechanism follows the Retraction Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction-guidelines-cope.pdf.

Article Removal: Legal Limitations

In an extremely limited number of cases, it may be necessary to remove an article from the online database of Government: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan. This will only occur when the article is clearly defamatory, infringes the legal rights of others, is or is reasonably expected to become the subject of a court order, or, if acted upon, might pose a serious health risk.

Under these circumstances, while the article metadata, including its title and authors, will be retained, the full text will be replaced with a screen indicating that the article has been removed for legal reasons.

Article Replacement

In cases where an article, if acted upon, might pose a serious health risk, the authors of the original article may wish to retract the flawed article and replace it with a corrected version. Under these circumstances, the procedures for retraction will be followed, with the difference that the retraction notice in the database will contain a link to the corrected and republished article and provide the document’s publication history.