WITHDRAWAL & RETRACTION POLICY
The prevailing notion in scholarly communication is that the editor of a learned journal holds complete and autonomous responsibility for selecting whether papers submitted to the journal will be published. The journal's editorial board policies serve as a comprehensive guide for the editor, and existing laws on defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism limit their decision-making. The importance of the academic archive as a lasting, historical documentation of scholarly activities stems from this concept. Published articles must, to the greatest extent possible, stay in existence, accurate, and unaltered. On the other hand, uncommon circumstances can result in the removal or complete elimination of an article. Such activities should not be undertaken casually and can only happen in exceptional circumstances.
This policy has been formulated to address these challenges and take into account current best practices in the scientific community and libraries. We will reassess this matter as standards evolve, and we welcome the viewpoints of the academic and library communities. We actively collaborate with several information groups to advocate for the adoption of international standards and best practices in the publishing and information industries. These issues necessitate such actions.
1. Article Withdrawal
This pertains solely to press pieces, which are preliminary versions of articles that may include mistakes or have been inadvertently sent twice. The publications may, if less frequently, involve breaches of professional ethical standards, such as submitting the same work many times, making false claims of authorship, plagiarizing, using misleading data, or engaging in similar misconduct. Articles in Press, that are accepted for publication but not yet officially published, may be identified as unintentional duplicates of already-published articles or as violations of our journal's publishing ethics guidelines. These violations include multiple submissions, false authorship claims, plagiarism, fraudulent data use, or similar offenses. In such cases, the articles may be withdrawn from Diwan: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Arab. The term "withdrawn" means that the HTML and PDF content of the article have been removed and replaced with an HTML page and a PDF that explicitly state that Diwan has withdrawn the article in accordance with the Policy on Article in Press Withdrawal. These files also include a link to the most recent version of the policy document.
2. Article Retraction
Infringements of the rules governing professional ethics, such as multiple submissions, false authorship claims, plagiarism, and fraudulent data use. On rare occasions, a retraction will be used to fix submission or publication mistakes. It has long been a rare occurrence in the academic world for an article to be retracted by its authors or the editor on the advice of other scholars. Many scientific and library organisations have created standards for handling retractions, and Diwan: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Arab has accepted the following best practices for retracting articles:
a. A retraction note titled "Retraction: [article title]" signed by the authors and/or the editor is published in the paginated section of the next issue of the journal and included in the contents list.
b. The electronic version contains a link to the source article.
c. In the online version, a screen displaying the retraction notice appears before the article. The link redirects to this page, from which the reader can access the article.
d. The authentic article has been kept exactly as is, except for a watermark on the .pdf stating on each page that it has been "RETRACTED."
e. The HTML version of the document is deleted.
The retraction process adheres to the Council on Publication Ethics (COPE) Retraction Guidelines, which can be found at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction-guidelines-cope.pdf
