Article withdrawal is strictly limited to manuscripts classified as Articles in Press, which represent preliminary versions of forthcoming publications. Such articles may occasionally contain inadvertent errors or arise from duplicate submissions. In less frequent cases, they may violate established professional ethics standards, including, but not limited to, multiple submissions, false claims of authorship, plagiarism, or the fabrication or manipulation of empirical data.

For Articles in Press—defined as manuscripts that have been formally accepted for publication but have not yet been assigned final volume, issue, or pagination details—the Journal of Indonesian Digital Islamic Studies may initiate withdrawal when errors are identified, inadvertent duplication of previously published work occurs, or ethical violations are determined by the editorial board (e.g., multiple submissions, unfounded authorship claims, plagiarism, or data misrepresentation).

Withdrawal entails the removal of the article’s full content in both HTML and PDF formats. These versions are replaced with a concise HTML page and a corresponding PDF stating that the article has been withdrawn in accordance with the Journal of Indonesian Digital Islamic Studies Policy on Article in Press Withdrawal, including a direct link to the relevant policy document.

Article Retraction

Retraction constitutes the primary mechanism for addressing serious breaches of scholarly ethics, including multiple submissions, fraudulent authorship attribution, plagiarism, data falsification, and related misconduct. In rare circumstances, retraction may also be warranted to correct substantial errors that emerge during the submission or publication process.

The retraction of scholarly articles—whether initiated by the authors or by the editor in consultation with the academic community—has long been recognized as an essential, though infrequent, component of scholarly communication. Numerous educational and bibliographic organizations have formalized retraction procedures. The Journal of Indonesian Digital Islamic Studies adopts the best practices articulated by Elsevier, as outlined below:

• A retraction notice entitled “Retraction: [Article Title]”, endorsed by the author(s) and/or the editor, shall be published in a subsequent issue of the journal and listed in the table of contents.

• In the online edition, the retraction notice shall include a hyperlink to the original article.

• The electronic version of the original article shall be clearly marked with a prominent retraction notice, to which the hyperlink resolves, allowing readers to access the unchanged article.

The original article shall remain accessible in its original form, except that each page of the PDF version shall bear a watermark indicating its retracted status. The HTML version of the article shall be removed.

Article Removal: Legal Constraints

In exceptional circumstances, it may be necessary to remove an article entirely from the journal’s digital archive. Such action is restricted to cases in which the article is demonstrably defamatory, infringes upon the legal rights of third parties, is subject to a court order, or—if acted upon—poses a serious and immediate risk to public health.

In these situations, the bibliographic metadata of the article (including the title and authorship) shall be retained. However, the full text shall be replaced by a notification page stating that the article has been removed for legal reasons.

Article Replacement

In cases where an article contains errors that could pose a risk to public health if implemented, the original authors may elect to retract the flawed version and replace it with a corrected and revised article. In such instances, standard retraction procedures shall apply, with the distinction that the retraction notice in the journal archive shall include a hyperlink to the corrected republication and clearly document the publication history.

References

Elsevier. (n.d.). Article withdrawal, retraction, and removal. https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). (n.d.). Retraction guidelines. https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guidelines/retractions