Article Retraction & Withdrawal

Authors seeking to withdraw a submitted manuscript prior to formal acceptance must follow a strict administrative procedure. The corresponding author must submit an official written request signed by all co authors explaining their detailed rationale to the editorial team. Requests submitted while active peer review is underway are carefully evaluated, as withdrawing a paper at this stage wastes valuable editorial and reviewer resources. Unjustified withdrawals may result in a temporary ban on future submissions from the authors.

If an article has already been officially published, the Journal Of Social And Political Sciences (JSAPS) will consider a formal retraction in strict alignment with COPE guidelines. Retraction is a mechanism used to correct the scientific record, and it is implemented if significant evidence demonstrates that the findings are fundamentally unreliable. This unreliability could stem from deliberate data fabrication, intentional falsification, major honest experimental errors, duplicate publication, or severe copyright infringement.

When a retraction is finalized, the retraction notices are published formally in the subsequent issue and assigned a specific DOI. This notice is permanently linked to the original article in the digital archive. The original PDF file remains openly accessible but is marked with a prominent watermark indicating the retraction, ensuring that the historical record of the publication remains transparent and fully traceable.