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What Are the Compelling Reasons?

• Plagiarism
• Bogus Claims of Authorship
• Multiple Submissions
• Fraudulent Data
• Infringements of Ethical Codes
• Redundant Publication
• Failure to Disclose a Major Competing Interest

Should a withdrawal be Applied in Cases of Disputed Authorship?

Authors sometimes request that articles should be withdrawn when
authorship is disputed after submission. If there is no reason to doubt
the validity of the findings or the reliability of the data it is not
appropriate to retract a publication solely for an authorship dispute. In
such cases, the journal editor should inform those who are involved in
the dispute that he/she cannot withdraw the article; but, if authors,
authors’ representatives, or authors’ affiliations provide reasonable
documents that proves their claims the editor may recognize withdrawal.
Article Withdrawal Process

• A retraction note entitled “Retraction: [article title]” signed by
the authors and/or the editor is published in the paginated part of
a subsequent issue of the journal and listed in the contents list.
• In the electronic version, a link is made to the original article.
• The original article is retained unchanged saving for a
watermark on the pdf. file version on each page to indicate that
it is “retracted”.

Wager E, Barbour V, Yentis S, Kleinert S. Retraction Guidelines.
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Sep 2009. Available from:
http://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf