Islamic Moral Architecture in Primary Education (IMAPE) is committed to maintaining the accuracy, integrity, completeness, reliability, and transparency of the scholarly record. Post-publication changes are made only when necessary to correct significant errors, clarify the publication record, address research or publication misconduct, or comply with ethical and legal obligations.
Corrections, expressions of concern, retractions, republication, redactions, and article-removal notices are handled transparently and proportionately. Formal notices will remain openly accessible and, where technically possible, permanently linked to the affected article.
A correction or erratum may be published when an article contains an error or omission that affects accuracy, interpretation, attribution, presentation, or understanding, but does not invalidate the principal findings or overall conclusions of the work.
The correction notice will identify the affected information, provide the corrected content, indicate whether the findings or conclusions are affected, and link to the original article. The original publication remains part of the scholarly record and will be identified as having a formal correction.
A publisher correction may be issued when an error introduced during copyediting, metadata processing, typesetting, layout, file preparation, or online publication affects the title, author information, affiliations, abstract, references, figures, tables, supplementary files, or discoverability of the article.
Minor typographical or formatting errors that do not affect meaning, attribution, interpretation, indexing, or the scholarly record may be corrected without a separate notice. Substantive production errors will normally be documented through a dated publisher correction.
An article may be retracted when reliable evidence indicates that its findings are substantially unreliable because of fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, duplicate publication, serious methodological error, unethical research, unauthorized data use, peer-review manipulation, compromised authorship, or another significant breach of research or publication ethics.
The retraction notice will explain the reason for retraction, identify the party responsible for initiating or deciding the action where appropriate, distinguish misconduct from honest error when reasonably possible, and indicate whether the authors agree with the decision when that information is relevant.
A retracted article will normally remain available to preserve the scholarly record but will be prominently identified as retracted and permanently linked to the retraction notice.
IMAPE may publish an Expression of Concern when credible questions have been raised about a published article but available evidence remains inconclusive, a formal investigation is continuing, an institution is unable or unwilling to investigate, or a reliable conclusion cannot reasonably be reached within an appropriate period.
Complete removal of a published article is reserved for exceptional circumstances, including serious legal infringement, court orders, unlawful content, substantial privacy or confidentiality violations, defamatory material, or information that creates a significant and demonstrable risk of harm.
When removal or redaction is necessary, bibliographic metadata will normally be retained together with a dated public notice explaining the action, unless legal or ethical restrictions prevent disclosure of particular information.
Retraction and republication may be considered when an article contains substantial errors but the underlying research remains valid and a fully corrected version can reliably replace the affected publication. The original article, retraction notice, and republished version will be clearly and transparently linked.
| • Assess the seriousness and credibility of the concern. • Review available evidence and publication records. • Give authors a reasonable opportunity to respond. |
• Consult independent experts when necessary. • Determine a transparent and proportionate action. • Permanently link formal notices to the affected article. |
The Editor-in-Chief, in consultation with relevant editors and the publisher when necessary, determines the appropriate post-publication action. Independent reviewers, research-integrity specialists, ethics committees, institutions, funders, or legal advisers may be consulted where specialist assessment is required.
IMAPE does not silently alter substantive elements of a published article. Material post-publication changes must be documented through an identifiable correction or another appropriate formal notice. No fixed time limit prevents the journal from correcting the scholarly record when a significant error or integrity concern is identified.
Where technically possible, formal post-publication actions will also be reflected in the article metadata so that readers, indexing services, repositories, and other scholarly systems can identify the current status of the publication.
IMAPE is guided by relevant principles and recommendations issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) when considering corrections, expressions of concern, retractions, republication, redaction, and article removal.
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