Post Publication Correction & Retraction

The Post Publication Policies formed to address any issues that may arise after a manuscript has been published in our journal. The following are categories of corrections and post-publication updates to peer-reviewed articles.

• Publisher’s Correction: A Publisher Correction may be published to correct an important error(s) made by the journal that affects the scientific integrity of the published article, the publication record, or the reputation of the authors or of the journal.

• Author’s Corrections: We understand that errors or omissions may occur despite our best efforts to ensure the accuracy of published content. If author identify an error in a published article, it should be brought to our notice promptly. It will be considered after review by the editorial team and will be published, if found suitable.

• Withdrawal of article: If we receive credible evidence of any misconduct like plagiarism, fraud or any other breach of ethical conduct, we will promptly investigate the matter and, if necessary, the affected article will be withdrawn from online content with issuance of withdrawal notification. This publishing agency follows COPE guidelines for withdrawing or retracting articles: https://publicationethics.org/sites/default/files/retraction-guidelines-cope.pdf

Preprints

Public Health Scholars does not publish preprints. Posting a preprint does not impact the consideration of the manuscript for publication in our journal. However, authors are required to disclose the existence of any preprint versions of the manuscript during the submission process, including the DOI or other identifier of the preprint, and any subsequent updates or revisions to the preprint. The manuscripts are evaluated for the scientific content of the manuscript independently of any preprint versions.

Author's Self-Archiving

We encourage our authors to share their research publications by self-archiving their work in public repositories, institutional repositories or on personal websites. A self-archived version of the manuscript must include a citation to the published article in our journal.