Amendment Policy and Article Retraction Procedure

The editorial board of the proceedings adheres to the principles defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)  and opposes any violations of ethical standards. Particular attention is paid to originality checks and the prevention of plagiarism.

Articles officially published in the national interdepartmental scientific and technical proceedings “Design, Production and Operation of Agricultural Machinery” are considered the final version of record. In cases of significant breaches of academic integrity, the editorial board may decide to publish corrections or retract the article.

Article Retraction
This action applies to articles with serious flaws, making their results or conclusions unreliable. The editorial board should consider retracting an article if:

  • it contains violations of professional ethical standards, such as false authorship claims, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, duplicate publication, or any other practices considered potentially harmful to the scientific community;
  • it contains serious errors (e.g., miscalculations or experimental mistakes), or its main conclusion is no longer valid or has been substantially undermined by new evidence unknown to the authors at the time of publication;
  • it contains errors reported by the authors (e.g., errors related to sample mix-ups or the use of scientific instruments or equipment later found to be defective).

For each retracted article, the retraction notice will state the reason for retraction and identify the initiator. The notice will be linked to the retracted article, which will be clearly marked as retracted (the original article remains unchanged except for a watermark on each page of the PDF indicating that it has been “retracted”).

A retraction notice titled “Retracted: [Article Title]” is published in the next issue of the journal and listed in the table of contents of the current issue.
The proceedings may also publish an expression of concern (and post it on the journal’s website) if an article is under investigation.
Please note that even if authors retain copyright to the article, this does not automatically grant them the right to retract it after publication.

Use of Artificial Intelligence
Undisclosed use of artificial intelligence to generate parts of the text, images, or data in a manuscript is considered a serious violation and may lead to article retraction. Authors are required to disclose the use of such tools. Concealing this information will be treated as grounds for retraction.

Availability of Retracted Articles
Retracted articles remain accessible in the proceedings archives and are marked as “Retraction.” They may be removed only in exceptional cases where required by applicable law.

Article Replacement
In cases where an article may pose a serious risk to health, the authors of the original article may withdraw the flawed version and replace it with a corrected one. In such circumstances, the retraction procedures described above apply, with the difference that the retraction notice will include a reference to the corrected republished article along with the document history.

Article Correction
This action is intended to inform readers about significant errors that negatively affect the version of record, the scientific integrity of the article, or the reputation of the authors or the journal.

Corrections to peer-reviewed content are classified as:

  • Erratum – an error made by the journal staff;
  • Corrigendum – an error made by the authors;
  • Addendum – material prepared by the authors to clarify inconsistencies, expand on the presented results, or provide additional explanations or updated information related to the main work.

The editorial board expects authors to inform the Editor-in-Chief of any serious error or inaccuracy in their article after it has been published online.
Corrections are made at the discretion of the journal, sometimes on the advice of reviewers or members of the editorial board. The editorial board issues corrections when this is considered more appropriate for the scientific community than retracting the article. To clarify the circumstances, editors may request explanations from the authors; however, the final decision on the necessity and nature of changes is made by the editorial board.

Correction notices are published as quickly as possible. Links between the online version of the article and the Erratum/Corrigendum will be provided in both directions. Published corrections are assigned a DOI.

The editorial board may also consider correcting the actual article online (PDF) at the editor’s discretion. In such cases, a note describing the changes made after the initial publication is added at the end of the article, and a separate correction notice is published.