Correction and Retraction Policy

Article correction

A Corrigendum will be published where it is required to correct an error or omission, but the results and conclusions of the article are not impacted by the error.

The Corrigendum should be drafted by the authors but will be subject to the review and approval of the Journal Editor or appropriate member of the Editorial Team. All authors must agree to publication. The Corrigendum will be linked to the article that it corrects.

On rare occasions the Publisher may need to correct an error made during the publication of an article. Where this is the case, the journal will issue an Erratum to correct the error. The Erratum will be linked to the article that it corrects.

A correction to the author or contributor list may be posted if the Editor determines that a change is justified when presented with documentation that supports the request.

 

Article retraction

The retraction of an article by its authors or the journal Editor under the advice of members of the scholarly community has long been an occasional feature of the learned world. Articles and Articles-in-Press may be retracted to correct errors that are too extensive in the view of the editors to publish a correction, or due to infringements of Machinery Jurnal Teknologi Terapan journal policies, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like.

Journal editors or designated representative(s) (such as members of a journal’s Ethics Committee), in consultation with Machinery Jurnal Teknologi Terapan Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics Center of Expertise, will consider retracting an article or Article-in-Press where:

  • They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of major error (e.g., miscalculation or experimental error), or as a result of fabrication (e.g., of data) or falsification (e.g., image manipulation).

  • It constitutes plagiarism, which includes substantial overlap in the view of the Editor.

  • The findings have previously been published elsewhere and the authors have failed to provide proper attribution to previous sources or disclosure to the editor, permission to republish, or justification (i.e. redundant publication).

  • It contains material or data that the authors were not authorised to publish.

  • Copyright has been infringed or there is some other serious legal issue (e.g., libel, breach of privacy).

  • It reports unethical research and/or breaches Machinery Jurnal Teknologi Terapan publishing ethics policies regarding the conduct of research involving human participants and/or animals.

  • There is evidence of compromised peer-review or systematic manipulation of the editorial process.

  • There is evidence or material concerns of authorship being sold.

  • There is evidence of identity theft or fictitious authorship.

  • The authorship of the publication cannot be verified.

  • There is evidence of citation manipulation, for example adding irrelevant citations to their paper.

  • The author(s) failed to disclose a major competing interest (a conflict of interest) that, in the view of the editor, would have materially affected interpretations of the work or recommendations by editors and/or peer reviewers.

  • The article is a review or meta-analysis where the results and conclusions rely on articles that have since been retracted.

  • There is evidence of any other breach of the journal's publishing policies, including without limitation Machinery Jurnal Teknologi Terapan policies on the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies, and the editor has therefore lost confidence in the results and conclusions of the article.

Standards for retracting articles have been developed by a number of library and scholarly bodies, and the following best practice is used by Machinery Jurnal Teknologi Terapan:

  • A retraction notice titled “Retraction: [article title]” signed by the editor and, if appropriate, by the authors is published in a subsequent issue of the journal, is paginated and is listed in the table of contents.

  • In the electronic version, a link is made between the retraction notice and the original article.

  • The online article is preceded by a screen containing the retraction note. It is to this screen that the link resolves; the reader can then proceed to the article itself.

  • The original article is retained unchanged except for a watermark on the .pdf indicating on each page that it is “retracted.”

  • The HTML version of the article is removed.