At Innovation Press, we value open communication about our positions on important topics. To that end, we collaborate with the research and healthcare communities we support to create policies that define and direct our work. Among our policies include the following:

Permanency of content

Every article formally published by Innovation Press, is allocated a unique digital object identifier (DOI) and preserved perpetually on the journal’s platform, independent of the results of its subsequent post-publication peer review.

All published content, including manuscripts pending full peer review clearance, is securely deposited for long-term preservation within authoritative digital archiving repositories. All peer-reviewed validated iterations of each article are additionally archived and indexed in mainstream academic databases such as Clarivate/Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus, alongside other discipline-specific retrieval systems.
Corresponding authors are permitted to revise, adjust and update their published manuscripts by submitting successive revised versions, which are permanently appended to the article’s complete version archive. Notably, each discrete version, once formally released online, is immutable and non-retractable, remaining perpetually retrievable via the official website of every journal.

Innovation Press fully implements the CrossMark program—a cross-publisher standardized framework designed to facilitate readers’ rapid identification of an article’s most up-to-date iteration. In strict adherence to CrossMark’s official protocols, every journal undertakes the long-term stewardship of all published content and provides instantaneous alerts to readers upon the release of any post-publication modifications.

The CrossMark emblem, prominently displayed at the header of every article, enables readers to view the real-time publication status of the manuscript, navigate directly to its latest published version, and access auxiliary documentation including updated peer review reports.

To uphold the integrity and full traceability of the global scholarly record, Innovation Press enforces the below regulatory framework governing post-publication corrections. These provisions are formulated in accordance with widely acknowledged best practices adopted across the academic publishing and library science communities.

Article removal, retraction, and correction

Guidelines for editing, retracting, or removing articles.

Policy overview
Innovation Press places a high value on upholding the credibility of its published articles because it understands how important the integrity and completeness of the scholarly record are to the scientific community. Published articles will, to the extent feasible, remain current, accurate, and unmodified. But occasionally, something happens that calls for an item to be withdrawn, retracted, or updated.
A scholarly journal's editor is ultimately and independently responsible for selecting which papers submitted to the journal will be published, according to a general concept of academic communication. The editor's judgment is informed by the journal's editorial board policies and limited by any applicable legal obligations, such as those pertaining to copyright infringement, privacy concerns, and libel. The significance of the academic record as a permanent and historical record of the transactions of scholarship is a result of this idea. Consequently, in order to maintain transparency for the scientific community, any corrections to the scientific record will be made through a notice that will be permanently linked to the article.
The Innovation's strategy for updating the scientific record is outlined in this policy. As best practices and standards change, it is examined and updated.

Authors who find errors in published articles
Using the information provided on the journal's home page, authors should get in touch with the publication as soon as they find an error in their published work.
In general, the onus is on the corresponding author to notify the journal of the erroneous details. The suggested correction and any supporting data or information will be reviewed by the journal editor or a designated representative (such as another editorial team member with the necessary subject matter knowledge). The suggested correction might be sent for additional peer review. The journal editor will choose the best course of action to correct the article. They might also confer with the editorial board of the journal.

Article correction
If an error or omission has to be corrected and does not affect the article's integrity or conclusions, a correction will be published in a corrigendum. The Authors should write the Corrigendum. Publishing requires the consent of all writers. The corrected article will provide a link to the Corrigendum.

Article withdrawal
Articles-in-Press, which are versions of acceptable articles that haven't been released in their final form, have the option to be withdrawn before they're published. Press releases can be revoked in the following cases:
(1) They are discovered to be flawed. (2) They are found to be an inadvertent copy of an already-published article. (3) According to the editor, they might have violated some of The Innovation's journal publishing standards, such as multiple submission, false authorship claims, plagiarism, and fraudulent data use.
When an article-in-press is withdrawn, the PDF and HTML content of the article will be deleted, and in their stead will be an HTML page and PDF with a link to The Innovation Policy on Article in Press Withdrawal indicating that the article has been withdrawn.

Article retraction
It has long been an occasional occurrence in the academic world for an article to be retracted by its authors or the journal editor on the advise of other scholars. Retractions of articles can occur for a variety of reasons, including plagiarism, multiple submissions, fraudulent use of data, authorship claims, or other infractions of The Innovation's journal policies, or for the purpose of correcting errors that the editors deem to be too extensive to publish a correction.
Retraction of an article will be considered by journal editors or designated representative(s), such as members of the journal's Ethics Committee, when:
(1) They have convincing proof that the results are faulty, either due to significant errors (such as experimental or calculation errors) or to data fabrication or falsification (such as image manipulation).
(2) It is considered plagiarism.
(3) The results had already been published elsewhere, and the authors neglected to give due credit to earlier publications, disclose relevant information to the editor, obtain permission to republish, or offer a rationale (i.e. redundant publication).
(4) It includes information or data that authors were not permitted to publish.
(5) Either copyright has been violated, or there is a major legal problem (libel, privacy breach, etc.).
(6) It exposes unethical research and/or transgresses The Innovation's publishing ethics guidelines concerning the use of animals or human subjects in research.
(7) There is evidence that the editorial process has been systematically manipulated or that peer review has been compromised.
(8) There is evidence that authorship is being sold, or there are serious issues.
(9) Evidence of citation manipulation has been found.
(10) The editor believes that the failure of the author(s) to disclose a significant competing interest (a conflict of interest) would have materially affected how editors and/or peer reviewers interpreted the work or recommended changes.
(11) The editor no longer has faith in the article's legitimacy or integrity since there is proof of any other violation of the journal's publishing policies.

For further guidance on retractions, expressions of concern, and batch retractions (when many articles are affected by the same issue), please refer to the COPE Retraction Guidelines: https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/retraction-guidelines

Copyright

Describes the rights of authors while publishing through Innovation Press.

Permissions

If you want to use excerpts or images, original or adapted, from articles that published by Innovation Press, you do not need to ask our permission. Our policy only requires that you cite the original publication.
If you want to use excerpts from copyrighted work in your submission, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and cite the original publication. For information about how to request permission to use copyrighted material, including work published elsewhere, please visit our permissions page.
If you have adapted a published figure, you may or may not need permission from the copyright owner, depending on how much the adaptation resembles the original. When in doubt, check with the copyright owner and cite the original article.
IMPORTANT: Obtaining permission can take several weeks. To avoid any delays to publication, we recommend that you seek permission before or at the time of submission.

Inclusive author name changes

Describes The Innovation's strategy for changing author names.

Upon request from authors who have changed their name, we will update author names on published papers and publish a correction. We will also arrange to update the article metadata in secondary indexation databases, specifically Clarivate/Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus.