WITHDRAWAL-RETRACTION-REMOVAL

POLICY ON WITHDRAWAL, RETRACTION, REMOVAL, AND CORRECTION

1. Withdrawal

Authors may request a manuscript withdrawal before its official publication in TVUJS under the following circumstances: erroneous submission, discovery of significant errors, or duplicate submission to another journal.

The withdrawal request must be submitted by the Corresponding Author through the online system (Discussion section) of TVUJS, accompanied by a written statement explaining the reasons and affirming that the manuscript will not be submitted elsewhere while awaiting the Editor-in-Chief’s decision. The Corresponding Author must also ensure the consent of all co-authors (if any) regarding the withdrawal.

TVUJS will consider the request based on the stated reasons, the stage of manuscript processing, and the planned publication schedule, as follows:

• Pre-screening stage: Withdrawal requests are generally promptly approved.
• Peer review, editing, or production stage: Authors must provide detailed justification and may be charged for processing costs if the request is approved.

2. Retraction

An article may be retracted if TVUJS discovers serious violations of research ethics, including data fabrication, plagiarism (including self-plagiarism), false authorship declaration, duplicate publication, privacy violations, peer-review manipulation, undeclared conflicts of interest, fraudulent data collection, or citation manipulation.

Retracted articles will be clearly marked “RETRACTED” on the TVUJS website, accompanied by a statement explaining the reasons. In the print version, a retraction notice will appear on the last page of the subsequent issue.

3. Removal

The Journal may remove an article entirely from the TVUJS database in exceptional cases, such as when the content is defamatory, infringes copyright, violates legal regulations, or upon request of a competent authority. In such cases, the article’s web link will remain active, but the content will be replaced with a removal notice stating the reason.

4. Correction

Authors may request a correction of an already published article if errors attributable to the authors are identified. A correction must be submitted as a separate manuscript through the TVUJS online system, including all required information under the ‘Discussion’ section: correction of the title, original article title, list of authors (identical to the original order), and a concise correction statement. The Editorial Board will consider the validity of the request and notify the authors of any applicable fee.

To safeguard the integrity of the publication, TVUJS does not alter the original article after publication. Instead, the correction will be linked to the original article on the website of the Journal, assigned a separate DOI, and published at the end of the next print issue after approval.

TVUJS will only consider corrections that are essential and do not affect the results, conclusions, or reliability of the research. The Journal does not accept the addition of new data or reinterpretation after publication. If an error seriously undermines the validity of the findings, retraction will be considered instead of correction.