Crossmark and Post-Publication Update Policy

MATHEdunesa is committed to keeping the scholarly record accurate and permanent. Published articles are treated as final Versions of Record. Any substantive change is made transparently and is never made silently.

Crossmark. The journal applies the Crossmark button, a Crossref service, to all published articles, on both the article landing pages and the PDFs. Clicking the button shows readers whether the article is current or whether it has been updated, corrected, or retracted. Crossmark metadata is deposited with Crossref through UNESA’s Crossref membership.

Types of updates. In line with COPE guidance, the journal may issue the following:

• Minor corrections. Typographical or formatting errors that do not affect the content are corrected without a formal notice.
• Correction (Erratum/Corrigendum). A correction is issued for significant errors that do not invalidate the findings. An Erratum covers errors made by the journal, and a Corrigendum covers errors made by the authors.
• Expression of Concern. This is issued where serious concerns exist but the evidence is inconclusive or an investigation is ongoing.
• Retraction. An article is retracted where its findings are unreliable or where there is serious misconduct, such as fabrication, plagiarism, duplicate publication, unethical research, or manipulated peer review.
• Removal or Replacement. These are used only in exceptional legal, privacy, or safety cases, or where errors are too extensive to correct.

Every formal notice is published with its own DOI and is linked in both directions with the original article. It is registered with Crossref, so that the update appears in Crossmark. The original article remains available and is clearly labelled, for example “RETRACTED”, unless removal is legally required.

Editorial independence. All decisions are made by the Editors on scholarly, ethical, and legal grounds only. They are not influenced by the authors’ affiliation or payment status, or by institutional interests.

Reporting concerns. Concerns about a published article may be sent to [email protected]. Please include supporting evidence where possible.

Post-Publication Changes

PT Mitra Edukasi dan Publikasi aims to preserve the scholarly record as a permanent, transparent, and reliable record of scholarly communication.

Substantive changes affecting interpretation, reliability, attribution, authorship, ethical status, conclusions, or the scholarly record will not be made silently. The appropriate action will depend on the nature, origin, severity, and impact of the issue.

Minor Updates

Minor typographical, punctuation, formatting, display, hyperlink, or other technical corrections that do not materially affect meaning, interpretation, scholarly credit, reliability, conclusions, or important bibliographic metadata may be corrected without issuing a separate formal notice.

Minor updates must not be used to make substantive alterations to the scholarly record and do not normally require a separate DOI or Crossmark update.

Correction, Erratum, and Corrigendum

A Correction, Erratum, or Corrigendum may be issued when a published article contains a substantive error or omission that requires correction but does not invalidate the principal findings or conclusions.

The classification of the update will depend on the nature and origin of the error in accordance with the applicable journal's Research Misconduct and Post-Publication Policy.

A formal Correction, Erratum, or Corrigendum will be published as a separate post-publication record with its own DOI. The notice will identify the affected article, explain the nature of the error and correction, and be linked to the Original Article.

The Original Article will normally remain accessible and traceable with its original DOI and publication history.

Expression of Concern

An Expression of Concern may be published when substantial concerns have arisen regarding the integrity, reliability, ethical status, or validity of a published article but an investigation is ongoing, available evidence remains inconclusive, or a final determination cannot yet be made.

An Expression of Concern may remain part of the publication history even after the matter has subsequently been resolved.

Following further assessment, an Expression of Concern may be followed by no further action, a Correction, Erratum, Corrigendum, Retraction, Article Removal, Article Replacement, or another appropriate editorial action.

Retraction

A Retraction may be issued when a published article is found to contain serious errors, unreliable findings, fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, duplicate or redundant publication, serious data or image manipulation, unethical research, fraudulent peer review, serious authorship misconduct, or other major problems that undermine the integrity or reliability of the work.

A Retraction Notice will identify the affected article and explain the reason for the Retraction as clearly as legally and ethically appropriate.

The Original Article will normally remain accessible as part of the scholarly record and will be clearly identified as RETRACTED, unless legal, privacy, confidentiality, safety, or other exceptional circumstances require Article Removal.

The Retraction Notice will normally be published as a separate record with its own DOI and linked to the Original Article.

Manuscript Withdrawal

Withdrawal applies primarily to manuscripts that have not yet been publicly published by the relevant journal.

Assignment or registration of a DOI alone does not necessarily mean that a manuscript has been publicly published.

Withdrawal requests and any related administrative provisions are handled according to the applicable journal's Research Misconduct and Post-Publication Policy and Publication Fees Policy.

Once an article has been publicly published as Article in Press, Online First, Ahead of Print, or the Version of Record, concerns regarding the article will normally be addressed through Correction, Erratum, Corrigendum, Expression of Concern, Retraction, Article Removal, Article Replacement, or another appropriate post-publication action rather than ordinary Manuscript Withdrawal.

Article Removal

Article Removal is an exceptional measure and is not a routine alternative to Correction or Retraction.

Removal may be considered when continued public availability of the content creates serious legal, privacy, confidentiality, copyright, safety, security, or similar risks, including circumstances involving a court order or another binding legal requirement.

Where possible, bibliographic metadata, DOI, title, Authors, and the article landing page will remain available. The full text may be removed or restricted and replaced by an appropriate Removal Notice.

Article Replacement

Article Replacement may be used in exceptional circumstances where the changes required to a published article are too extensive to be adequately addressed through a Correction, Erratum, or Corrigendum and a replacement version is necessary to maintain an accurate scholarly record.

Replacement must not obscure the publication history or be used to silently rewrite a previously published article.

The Original Article will remain traceable and linked to the replacement record. Where appropriate, the Original Article may be identified as REPLACED or RETRACTED AND REPLACED.

Preservation of the Scholarly Record

PT Mitra Edukasi dan Publikasi does not normally delete, overwrite, or silently replace published scholarly content.

When an editorially significant post-publication update occurs, the Publisher and relevant journal will aim to:

• preserve the Original Article and its bibliographic record where appropriate;
• issue an appropriate transparent editorial notice;
• assign a separate DOI to a formal post-publication notice where applicable;
• clearly identify the current status of the affected article;
• maintain links between the Original Article and subsequent notices or versions; and
• update the corresponding Crossref/Crossmark metadata where applicable.

Editorially significant updates will normally be issued as separate records rather than through silent in-place modification of the Original Article.

Crossmark and Crossref Metadata

For content participating in Crossmark, PT Mitra Edukasi dan Publikasi will deposit and maintain relevant Crossmark metadata with Crossref.

The Crossmark record may include:

• the DOI of the published content;
• the DOI of this Crossmark and Post-Publication Update Policy;
• the current status of the content;
• the DOI and relationship of significant post-publication updates, where applicable; and
• other publication or editorial metadata supported by Crossmark.

Significant post-publication updates will be registered with Crossref using the appropriate supported update metadata or relationship as applicable.

For journals and content participating in Crossmark, the Crossmark button will be applied consistently to new participating content rather than only to articles that have subsequently been updated. The Crossmark button will be included in the digital formats to which Crossmark applies, including article landing pages and PDFs.

Crossmark may also be applied retrospectively to previously published content where appropriate, particularly where such content has received a significant post-publication update.

Fees and Editorial Independence

Administrative, editorial, technical, or production charges associated with Author-requested Manuscript Withdrawal, post-publication changes, Correction, Corrigendum, Article Replacement, or other administrative services are governed by the Publication Fees Policy of the relevant journal.

Such charges do not influence editorial decisions and must not limit the responsibility of the journal or Publisher to protect the scholarly record.

Actions required because of ethical, legal, scientific, research-integrity, or scholarly-record concerns will be handled according to the applicable journal policies regardless of payment status.

Relationship with Journal Policies

This Crossmark Policy establishes the Publisher's general framework for communicating significant post-publication updates. It does not replace the detailed editorial policies of individual journals.

Each journal maintains applicable policies concerning:

• Publication Ethics and Malpractice;
• peer review and editorial independence;
• authorship and authorship changes;
• Conflicts of Interest;
• research ethics and data availability;
• research and publication misconduct;
• Correction, Erratum, Corrigendum, and Expression of Concern;
• Manuscript Withdrawal;
• Retraction, Article Removal, and Article Replacement;
• Comments and Criticism and Author Response, where applicable;
• Publication Fees; and
• other applicable editorial and post-publication matters.

Contact

Questions, Comments and Criticism, or concerns regarding an individual article should be submitted to the Editorial Team of the journal in which the article was published.