Crossmark Update Policy
Crossmark Update Policy
Publication is not the end of an article’s life. This page states what this journal does when a published paper has to be corrected, updated or withdrawn, and how a reader can always tell whether the copy in front of them is still current.
Last reviewed August 2026 · Applies to all submissions to JMVRA (ISSN 2984-8911)
Every article published by Journal of Modern and Versatile Research Approach (JMVRA, ISSN 2984-8911) carries a Crossmark button. Clicking it queries CrossRef directly — not this website — and reports whether the article has been corrected, updated or retracted since it was published, along with the date of the most recent change. Because the check runs against CrossRef’s records, it works on a downloaded PDF just as well as on the article page, and it keeps working if a copy is read years from now.
What Counts as an Update
Not every change to a file is an update. Fixing a broken link, re-exporting a PDF or correcting a typographical slip that cannot mislead a reader is maintenance, and it is not recorded as an update. The following are, and each is deposited to CrossRef against the article’s DOI:
Correction
An error that affects the record but not the conclusions — a wrong figure, a mislabelled table, an omitted funder, an author name spelled incorrectly. The article is replaced with a corrected version carrying a dated note, and the DOI is unchanged.
Expression of Concern
A credible question has been raised that cannot yet be resolved. The article stays online, unchanged, with a notice attached while the matter is investigated.
Retraction
The findings are unreliable, or the work breaches publication ethics. The article is not deleted — it stays online, watermarked as retracted, with a notice explaining why.
What Never Changes
- The DOI is permanent. A corrected or retracted article keeps the DOI it was published with. Existing citations continue to resolve.
- Nothing is silently removed. A retracted article remains available and readable. Withdrawing it from the internet would break the citation record and hide the very thing readers need to see.
- The original stays too. Where an article is replaced, both the original and the corrected version remain retrievable, so a reader can see exactly what changed.
- Notices are free-to-read whatever the access status of the article they concern.
- Authors are not charged for a correction or a retraction, regardless of who introduced the error.
How a Change Is Made
- Someone raises it — an author, a reader, a reviewer or the editorial office. Write to [email protected] with the paper ID and what you believe is wrong.
- The editors assess it and, where the matter concerns the authors’ own work, put it to them for a response.
- A decision is recorded — maintenance, correction, expression of concern, or retraction — following COPE’s retraction guidelines.
- The article page is updated with a dated, linked notice that a reader cannot miss.
- CrossRef is notified, which is what makes the change visible through the Crossmark button, in reference managers, and to indexing services.
This Policy’s Own Identifier
Related Policies
Crossmark reports that something changed. The policies below set out when and why — the correction and retraction policies are the substantive rules this page summarises, and the archival policy explains how the record survives regardless.
