Retraction and Correction Policy

Leisure Management and Marketing (LMM) · e-ISSN 3124-9027 · Solamarc Publishing
Version 1.0 · Approved [date]

Leisure Management and Marketing follows the COPE Retraction Guidelines (v2, 2019) in correcting the published record. Retraction corrects the literature and alerts readers; it is not a punitive act and implies no finding of misconduct unless the notice says so.

Actions

Corrigendum / Erratum — errors not affecting findings, introduced by authors or by production. Article remains, notice linked.
Expression of Concern — well-founded concern that cannot yet be resolved. Article remains, flagged; always followed by a resolving notice.
Retraction — a ground below is established. Article remains online, watermarked and linked to the notice.
Retract and replace — where a central error is correctable and a corrected version serves readers better.
Removal — only for a court order, defamation, or serious privacy or safety risk. Metadata, DOI, and notice remain.

Grounds for retraction

Clear evidence of: unreliable findings, whether from misconduct (fabrication, falsification, data or image manipulation) or honest error; plagiarism; redundant or duplicate publication, including simultaneous submission; unethical research, including missing ethical approval or informed consent; copyright infringement or other legal defect; manipulated or fabricated peer review; undisclosed competing interests material to interpretation; authorship violations, including gift, ghost, or purchased authorship; paper-mill or brokered submission; undisclosed generative-AI authorship or fabricated content; citation manipulation.

Not grounds for retraction

Authorship disputes that do not affect validity; minor typographic, reference, or metadata errors; disagreement with conclusions or methods absent evidence of error; inconclusive suspicion, which is instead handled by an Expression of Concern; failure to replicate, absent evidence the original was wrong.

Procedure

Concerns may be raised by anyone — authors, readers, reviewers, institutions, or the publisher — at admin@solamarcpublishing.com, citing the article DOI. Anonymous reports are assessed on their evidence.

The Editor-in-Chief first determines whether the concern, if substantiated, falls within the grounds above; concerns outside them are closed with a written explanation. Where it does, the journal investigates using similarity screening, source data, instruments, ethics documentation, and submission records, consulting independent experts as needed.

All authors are notified of the substance of the concern and invited to respond within 21 days. Non-response does not prevent action. Suspected misconduct may be referred to the authors' institution; where that process will be lengthy, an Expression of Concern is published in the interim.

The Editor-in-Chief decides, in consultation with the Editorial Board and the publisher, and records the grounds in writing. Any editor with a competing interest recuses themselves. Retraction is not deferred pending unrelated proceedings once unreliability is established.

The notice

Each retraction is a separate item titled "Retraction: [article title]", published in the next issue, paginated, freely available, and assigned its own DOI under prefix 10.66373 with bidirectional links to the article. It states who is retracting and why, in factual language, distinguishing misconduct from honest error and identifying which parts are affected if the retraction is partial, and records any disagreement among authors.

The article stays online with a RETRACTED watermark on the PDF and a notice on the landing page. The retraction is deposited to Crossref with update-type: retraction and reported to all services indexing or archiving the journal.

Appeals, records, sanctions

Authors may appeal within 30 days to admin@solamarcpublishing.com on specific grounds or new evidence; the appeal is reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief with an uninvolved Editorial Board member and is final within the journal. Authors may then approach COPE. Publication is not ordinarily suspended pending appeal.

Investigations are confidential, and the identity of a complainant is not disclosed without consent unless legally required. Records are retained for ten years. Where misconduct is established, the journal may bar further submissions for a defined period, notify the authors' institution and funder, and review the authors' other work published by Solamarc Publishing.

This policy is reviewed at least every two years.

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