Retraction Policy

Retraction Policy

The journal "Law and Sciences" follows a retraction procedure in accordance with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Grounds for Retraction

The editorial board may decide to retract an article in the following cases:
- detection of plagiarism or improper borrowing of text, ideas, data, or research results;
- absence of proper references to primary data sources;
- fabrication or falsification of data or research results;
- republication of the same article in another journal without proper justification;
- inclusion of authors who did not make a significant scientific contribution, or exclusion of those who did;
- detection of a dishonest peer review process;
- existence of a conflict of interest that may have influenced or did influence the research results;
- significant errors that make it impossible to reliably use the article's results;
- author's initiative with a reasoned justification.

Procedure

1. Retraction may be initiated by the editorial board, the author(s), or a third party by contacting the editorial office at: qqbkqq@gmail.com
2. The editorial board reviews the grounds for retraction and, if necessary, requests explanations from the authors.
3. The retraction decision is made by the editorial board and formalised in a retraction notice.
4. The retraction notice is published on the journal's website with a statement of the reasons for the retraction.

Consequences of Retraction

- The article remains in the journal's archive with a clear indication of its retraction.
- A "RETRACTED" watermark is added to each page of the PDF version.
- The article's metadata is updated in the DOI registry.
- The article is not removed from the archive but cannot be used as a source for further research.