Resguardo, Corrections and retractations

 

Safe Harbor Policy.

The Journal of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Cordoba is housed in the repository of Magazines of the National University of Cordoba, a site for the university community to disseminate all its scientific, academic and cultural content in free and open access. https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/ 

Policy of corrections, retractions etc.

The Journal of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Cordoba (RFCM) adheres to the ICMJE  Recommendations for Correction, Retraction, and Republication and Control Version, in order to avoid scientific malpractice, is willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions when necessary according to the following types of errors:

  1. Voluntary errors (falsification, fabrication or plagiarism): In the event that an article that has already been published and presents substantive errors detected by the author and that threatens scientific quality, the author may request the withdrawal or correction. However, if it is detected by a third party, plagiarism, prior publication, unethical conduct or error, it is the author's obligation and responsibility to publicly retract, which will immediately proceed to public withdrawal or correction. The public correction or retraction will be made in the next printed issue of the journal as well as in its digital version.
  2. Invonuntary errors (errors in sampling, procedures, or data analysis, failure to reproduce results, accidental omission of information about methods or data analysis): When an author or other person on the committee discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his or her published work, it is his or her obligation to immediately notify the Editor of the Journal and cooperate with the publishers to retract or correct the document.