Corrections and Retractions
The published record is not altered silently. Every change to a published article is announced, dated and permanently attached to it.
The four responses
Correction
For an error that does not undermine the article's findings — a misquoted verse, a wrong edition, a transliteration error, a mistaken date, an omitted acknowledgement or funding statement, a corrected author name or affiliation.
A correction notice is published as a citable item with its own DOI, linked from the article. Where the error is in the text itself, a corrected version is issued and the original version remains available.
Expression of concern
Where a substantiated concern exists but the investigation is unfinished, or an institution has been asked to investigate and has not reported. The notice states what is in question and is replaced by a correction, a retraction, or a notice of resolution when the matter closes.
Retraction
For findings that are unreliable, whether through error or misconduct — plagiarism, fabricated or falsified material, invented citations, duplicate publication, undisclosed conflicts that materially affect the work, or unethical research.
- The article stays online, watermarked as retracted on every page.
- A retraction notice is published as a citable item, stating who requested the retraction and on what grounds, and separating error from misconduct.
- Indexing services and archives are notified.
- A retraction is not a judgement on the author's other work.
Removal
Reserved for the rare case where the content is defamatory, infringes a legal right, or would cause identifiable harm if it stayed available — for example, material published in breach of a community's or an institution's conditions of access. The metadata and a notice remain; the content is withdrawn.
How to raise a concern
Write to journal@siddhantaknowledge.org with the article, the specific passage, and your evidence. Anonymous reports are considered where the evidence stands on its own.
- Acknowledgement within five working days.
- An editor with no involvement in the article assesses the concern.
- The corresponding author is given the substance of the concern and a reasonable period to respond.
- Where needed, the matter is referred to the author's institution.
- The outcome is published as a notice and communicated to the person who raised it.
Authors may request a correction or a retraction of their own work at any time; a self-retraction is recorded as such.
Versions
Where an article is corrected, every version keeps its own DOI and remains retrievable. The current version is the one served by default, and it carries a note of what changed and when.