Research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, citation manipulation, or plagiarism in producing, performing, or reviewing research and writing an article by authors, or in reporting research results. When authors are found to have been involved with research misconduct or other serious irregularities involving articles that have been published in scientific journals, Editors have a responsibility to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the scientific record.

1.Trop. Nat. carries a Comments and Criticism section, which provides a forum for expressing different viewpoints, comments, clarification, correction of misunderstanding, and reporting research misconduct regarding topics in published papers. Readers of the journal are earnestly invited to contribute their ideas to this forum.

In cases of suspected misconduct, the Editors and Editorial Board will use the best practices of COPE to assist them to resolve the complaint and address the misconduct fairly. This will include an investigation of the allegation by the Editors. A submitted manuscript that is found to contain such misconduct will be rejected. In cases where a published paper is found to contain such misconduct, a retraction can be published and will be linked to the original article.

 ARTICLE RETRACTION

Infringements of professional ethical codes (such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, or the like) are forbidden in J. Trop. Nat.. Occasionally, a retraction will be used to correct errors in submission or publication. The retraction of an article by its authors or the editor under the advice of members of the scholarly community has long been an occasional feature of the learned world. Standards for dealing with retractions have been developed by a number of libraries and scholarly bodies, and this best practice is adopted for article retraction by J. Trop. Nat.

The editor will investigate deeply the infringements of professional ethical codes. The J. Trop. Nat. Editorial Board will notify the author(s) about the alleged violation along with its proof and offer the options that can be executed by the Author(s). If the Editor is unable to contact the author within the prescribed period, the Editor will discuss with other Editor and Editorial Advisory Board about this problem.

The standard of article retraction in J. Trop. Nat. are:

1. A statement (letter) of article retraction, entitled “Retracted: (article title)”, will be issued by the J. Trop. Nat. Editorial Member in two languages (Indonesian and English).
2. The retraction letter of this article (along with evidence, comments, criticism, or request from the member(s) of the scientific community) is placed on the previous page of the article with the same page number as the first page of the article and given the additional code “ed-1” for the first page of the letter and so on (e.g., 56-ed-1, 56-ed-2, etc.).
3. The original version of the article will be given a “Retracted” watermark or stamp and placed after the letter. This new PDF file is made to replace the original PDF file article.
4. The abstract of the article on the J. Trop. Nat. website is replaced with a statement about retracted of the article because it violates the ethical code and/or J. Trop. Nat. policy while the keyword of the article is deleted.
5. The retraction letter of the article will also be published in J. Trop. Nat. on the edition when the article and the letter issued as part of the Comments and Criticism section.