The Editorial Board follows retraction policy to warn readers about self-plagiarism (authors submit the same data in several journals), academic plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification, disguise the conflicts of interests, which would affect the interpretation of data or recommendations for their use. The retraction of the scientific article is the mechanism of correcting published data and alerting readers about articles with serious gaps or invalid content, incl. unreliable one. The publication of such data may be accidental or intentional misconduct.

The retraction’s goal is to inform readers about the article which contains unreliable data.

Based on the Recommendations of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), journal staff is guided by the below policy of retraction of previously published articles.

Editors should consider retracting a publication if:

• it contains material or data without authorization for use;
• the research findings have previously been published;
• the article has serious errors (e.g., the misinterpretation of research findings) which call into question scientific value;

• authorship is invalid (the inclusion of persons who do not meet the authorship criteria, or no one is worth being the author);

• the author(s) failed to disclose a conflict of interests (as well as other violations of publication ethics);
• the article was republished with the consent of the author(s);
• there are other violations of ethics.

Grounds for initiating article retraction:

• the author’s request to retract the article;
• the request of the third parties (e.g., participants in the conflict of interests) who have evidence of the violations of academic ethics by the author of the article published in the journal;
• the editorial board has found ethics violations by the article’s author.

The Academic Integrity Commission of Kherson State University decides about article retraction by relying on the decision of the Editorial Board.

Information on article retraction is available on the journal’s web-site.

Retracted articles remain accessible but are clearly marked as “Retracted.”

The decision reasoning article retraction is sent to the author (s).