CORRECTIONS, RETRACTIONS AND MATTERS ARISING

Rarely, it may be necessary to publish corrections to, or retractions of, articles published in the International Journal of Counseling and Psychotherapy (IJCP) to maintain the integrity of the academic record. In this regard, the policies and actions taken by IJCP are based on the following guidelines:

Corrections to, or retractions of, published articles will be made by publishing a Correction or a Retraction note bidirectionally linked to the original article. Any alterations to the original article will be described in the note. The original article remains in the public domain and the subsequent Correction or Retraction will be widely indexed. In the exceptional event that material is considered to infringe certain rights or is defamatory, we may have to remove that material from our site and archive sites.

Authors, readers or organizations who become aware of errors or ethics issues in a published article are encouraged to contact the individual journal in the first instance via the contact details available on the journal website. All reports will be considered by the Editors; additional expert advice may be sought when deciding on the most appropriate course of action. Academia Edu Cendekia Indonesia (AEDUCIA), as the publisher of the IJCP provides support to Editors in addressing publication ethics issues in a COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)-compliant manner.

Corrections:
Errors in published articles that affect the accuracy of the article, but do not substantially invalidate the conclusion, will, at the Editor(s)’ discretion, be corrected via publication of a Correction that is indexed and bidirectionally linked to the original article.

For authors who’ve changed their name and wish to correct it on their published works, they must contact the IJCP editor with a clear and logical explanation and reason.

An article may be retracted when the integrity of the published work is substantially undermined due to errors in the study's conduct, analysis, and/or reporting or when there is a violation of publication or research ethics. In such cases, the original article is marked as retracted, but the PDF version remains available to readers, with the retraction statement bi-directionally linked to the original published paper. Retraction statements typically include a statement of assent or dissent from the authors. When corrections are made to articles, the original article (both PDF and HTML) is corrected and linked to the published amendment notice, which details the original error. To maintain transparency, if changes to the original article affect data in figures, tables, or text (such as changes in data points/error bars or the need to redraw curves), the amendment notice will reproduce the original data. In cases where it is impossible to correct the article in both HTML and PDF versions (for example, when the article was published many years before the error was identified), the article will remain unchanged. However, it will contain bi-directional links to and from the published amendment notice.

Retractions:
On rare occasions, when the interpretation or conclusion of an article is substantially undermined, it may be necessary for published articles to be retracted. Editorial decisions to retract are based on the reliability of the article and whether the Editor still has confidence in the interpretation of the work and/or conclusions being presented. IJCP will follow the COPE guidelines in such cases. Retractions are designed to be a neutral tool to correct the literature and should not be viewed as punitive. Retraction notices are indexed and bidirectionally linked to the original article. The original article is watermarked as retracted, and the title is amended with the prefix “Retracted article:”

Editorial Expressions of Concern and Editor’s Notes:
Editor's Note: An Editor's Note alerts readers if the journal has initiated an inquiry in response to concerns raised about a published article. It is an online-only update made only to the HTML version of the record of the published article. It is not indexed.

Editorial Expression of Concern: An Editorial Expression of Concern is a statement from the editors alerting readers to serious concerns affecting the integrity of the published paper. EEoCs are published online and are bidirectionally linked to the published paper. They receive a DOI and are indexed in major scholarly databases such as DOAJ, EBSCO, Dimensions, and SiNTA.

Publishing an Editor’s Note or EEoC is recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) to keep readers updated while a potentially lengthy research integrity investigation is underway. Editor’s Notes and EEoCs are typically but not always superseded by publishing another amendment, such as a correction or retraction, once the investigation is complete.

Removal of published content:
In exceptional circumstances, IJCP reserves the right to remove an article from IJCPs online platforms. Such action may be taken when (i) IJCP has been advised that content is defamatory, infringes a third party’s intellectual property right, right to privacy, or other legal right, or is otherwise unlawful; (ii) a court or government order has been issued, or is likely to be issued, requiring removal of such content; (iii) content, if acted upon, would pose an immediate and serious risk to health. Removal may be temporary or permanent. Bibliographic metadata (e.g. title and authors) will be retained, and will be accompanied by a statement explaining why the content has been removed.

Matters Arising:
IJCP recognise the importance of post-publication commentary on published research as necessary to advancing scientific discourse. Formal post-publication commentary on published papers can include challenges, clarifications or, in some cases, replication of the published work. These comments should reflect the knowledge available at the time the original paper was written, rather than later scientific developments.

At the discretion of the Editor, and dependant on the nature of the piece, post-publication comment or discussion will be evaluated, peer-reviewed and after peer review may be published online as Matters Arising. Authors of the original work will be invited to reply and this may also be published alongside the post-publication commentary.