Withdrawal Policies

Authors are prohibited from withdrawing their submitted manuscripts after the peer-review process is being conducted as it would waste time and effort invested by editors, referees, and the publisher in processing them.

Before submission via our OJS system, authors must agree to a provided checklist.

  1. In cases where authors insist on withdrawing their manuscripts during the peer-review process, they will incur a penalty of 1,000,000 IDR per manuscript, which must be paid to the publisher.
  2. It is considered unethical to withdraw a manuscript from one journal after another has accepted it. In this case, authors should pay a penalty of 1,500,000 IDR per manuscript to the publisher.
  3. Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, a penalty of 1,500,000 IDR per manuscript will be imposed for any withdrawal.
  4. Authors can only withdraw their manuscripts once the withdrawal penalty has been paid to the publisher. Failure to comply with the penalty policy will result in all the authors being blacklisted from publishing in POSITRON until they fully pay the penalty charge. Meanwhile, their affiliation will be blacklisted for 2 years.
  5. To formally request a manuscript withdrawal, the corresponding author must submit an official request to the Editor.
  6. If the authors deny paying the penalty, an official letter from the Editor will be sent to the authors and cc-ed to their supervisors mentioning the withdrawal policy and the consequences.