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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Authors sometimes request that articles should be withdrawn when authorship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