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Bernd has been pushing this point for a while, and I think he is right. Self correction is an important part of the scientific process and journals, funders, and institutions need to do more to encourage it.
'What can journals do to support both self-correction by authors and by the community? We have discussed this matter for a decade at EMBO Press, culminating in a workshop that recommended to make an explicit distinction between an author initiated- and an externally initiated- or even forced retraction. We use the term “withdrawal” for the former and reserve “retraction” for the latter.'
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Anyway, Bernd Pulverer is, as always, an advertisement for journals.
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Neat suggestion, but there are acres of grey area... Author-initiated at the beginning of the whole process or just the final decision, i.e., if the authors refuse to the bitter end?