Errata, Corrections and Retractions Policy

Errata, corrections and retractions

Articles and documents published in the Technological-Educational Journal Docentes 2.0 (TEJD) will be kept as valid, exact, and unaltered as possible. However, exceptional circumstances may occur when a published article must be corrected, retracted, or withdrawn. Such actions will be taken after being carefully considered by the Editorial Team of the journal, with the support of the staff of Ediciones Complutense, to ensure that they are done with the utmost guarantees and based on the rules set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

In such cases, the norms and mechanisms of control of scientific communication have several main procedures of rectification in accordance with the type, seriousness, and consequences of the detected inaccuracy. These can assume the form of a notice of an erratum, a correction, a retraction, or, on rare occasions, the removal of an article. The purpose of this mechanism is that changes are transparent and that the integrity of the academic record is always warranted.

Errata

Errata will be published when an error or omission made by the journal might affect the publication’s record or the reputation of the authors and/or the journal, but when the academic integrity of the article remains intact.

A separate notification will accompany all errors. The notice must provide precise details of the erratum and the changes made to the document.

In such circumstances:

  1. The article will be corrected.
  2. A final note concerning the notice of errata will be included in the article.
  3. Errata will be published separately but linked to the corrected version of the article.
  4. The errata document will be paginated and have a DOI assigned.

Corrections

Notice of corrections will be published when an error or omission by the author needs to be corrected, which otherwise would affect the publication’s record or the reputation of the authors and/or the journal but not the academic integrity of the article.

A separate notification will accompany all errors. The notice must provide precise details of the erratum and the changes made to the document.

In such circumstances:

  1. The article will be corrected.
  2. A final note concerning the notification of errata will be included in the article.
  3. Errata will be published separately but linked to the corrected version of the article.
  4. The errata document will be paginated and have a DOI assigned.

 

Retractions

A notice of retractions will be published when a significant error invalidates the article's conclusions or in cases of misconduct in the research and/or publication process. Authors can request a retraction of their articles if any of the following criteria are met:

  • If there is clear evidence that the results are unreliable, whether resulting from misconduct (for instance, fabricated data and manipulated images) or a mistake (e.g., an experimental error or miscalculation).
  • If the findings have been published elsewhere without adequate cross-referencing, license, or justification (e.g., in cases of redundant or duplicate publication).
  • If the research constitutes plagiarism.
  • If there is evidence of fraudulent authorship.
  • If the peer review process is proved to have been compromised.
  • If there is evidence of unethical research and infringement of professional and ethical codes.

Once the decision to retract an article has been made:

  1. The watermark 'Retracted article' will be added to the published version of the article’s record.
  2. The title will be 'Retracted article: [Title of the article].'
  3. A separate declaration of retraction will be published, titled 'Retraction: [Title of the article],' which will be linked to the retracted article. The editors of the journal will sign this note.
  4. The declaration of retraction will be paginated and have a DOI assigned.

 

Removal of articles

Removing an article will only happen in exceptional circumstances when the issues are exceedingly serious about being addressed through a notice of correction or retraction.

This will only happen when:

  • The article is defamatory or violates other legal rights.
  • When the article is subject to a court order.
  • When the article, if no action is taken, could suppose a grave health risk.

In the event of an article removal, the metadata (authorship and title) will remain, and the text will be substituted by a document that indicates that the article has been removed for legal purposes.