Crossmark Policy
Journal of Science and Technology (JST) · e-ISSN 2456-5660 · Published by Longman Publishers, Hyderabad
This policy statement: https://doi.org/10.46243/jst.crossmark-policy
About Crossmark
Crossmark, from Crossref, provides a standard way for readers to locate the current version of a piece of content. By clicking the Crossmark button, readers can determine whether changes have been made after publication.
The Journal of Science and Technology (JST) is implementing Crossmark. This page sets out the policies behind it: how content is reviewed before it is published, the standards authors are held to, how anyone can raise a concern about something we have published, the circumstances in which a published article may be corrected or retracted, and exactly what happens to an article when it is.
Our commitment to the published record
Once an article is published in JST it becomes part of the permanent scholarly record. We do not silently alter, replace or remove published articles. Any change to a published article is made openly, through a dated notice that is linked to the article and carries its own DOI, and is reflected in the article's Crossmark status so that readers, indexes and citing authors are all told the same thing.
How content is reviewed before publication
Every research article published in JST is peer reviewed. Review is double-blind: reviewers do not know the identity of the authors and authors do not know the identity of the reviewers. Each manuscript is assessed by a minimum of two independent reviewers with relevant expertise, and the decision to accept, revise or reject rests with the handling editor under the authority of the Editor-in-Chief. Editors and reviewers declare any conflict of interest and step aside from manuscripts where one exists.
JST charges no fees of any kind — no submission, processing, page, colour, withdrawal or retraction fee — so no editorial decision is ever influenced by payment.
The journal's full peer-review process and its policy on the use of generative AI by authors, reviewers and editors are published on the journal website.
Ethical standards for authors
By submitting to JST, authors confirm that:
- the work is original, has not been published before, and is not under consideration elsewhere;
- all listed authors made a substantive contribution, have approved the final version, and agree to its submission, and no one who qualifies as an author has been left out;
- any text, data, figures or ideas taken from other sources are properly cited, and any reuse of previously published material has the necessary permission;
- the data reported are genuine and have not been fabricated, falsified or selectively presented, and the underlying data can be made available on reasonable request;
- all sources of funding and all competing interests, financial or otherwise, are disclosed;
- research involving human participants or animals was conducted with the appropriate ethical approval and, where required, informed consent;
- any use of generative AI tools complies with the journal's Generative AI Policy.
Submissions may be screened for similarity to previously published work, and the journal treats plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabrication and undisclosed conflicts of interest as misconduct. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) licence and authors retain copyright.
How to report a concern about published content
Anyone — readers, authors, reviewers, institutions or other journals — may raise a concern about an article JST has published. Please write to the Editor-in-Chief at editor@jst.org.in, quoting the article's title and DOI and describing the concern as specifically as you can, with any supporting evidence. Concerns may be raised anonymously.
Every concern is acknowledged. The Editor-in-Chief investigates in line with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), gives the authors the opportunity to respond, and where appropriate consults the authors' institution. The person who raised the concern is told the outcome. Where an investigation finds that the published record needs to change, one of the actions described below is taken.
When a published article may be updated or retracted
An article may be changed after publication only in one of the following ways.
Correction (erratum or corrigendum)
Issued when a part of an otherwise reliable article is found to be wrong — an error in a figure, a table, an author's name or affiliation, a reference, or a passage of text — and the error does not affect the article's overall findings or conclusions. A corrigendum corrects an error made by the authors; an erratum corrects an error introduced by the journal. The correction states exactly what was wrong and what it now says.
Retraction
Issued when the article's findings can no longer be relied upon. Following the COPE Retraction Guidelines, JST retracts an article when there is clear evidence that its findings are unreliable, whether through honest error or through misconduct such as fabrication, falsification or image manipulation; when it plagiarises other work; when it reports research that has been published elsewhere without proper attribution or permission; when it reports research conducted without the required ethical approval; or when it describes a serious and unresolved failure of authorship or of the peer-review process. A retraction notice explains why the article was retracted and who requested it, and is written so as not to be defamatory.
Expression of concern
Published when there is a well-founded concern about an article that is still being investigated, or where an investigation cannot reach a conclusion, so that readers are alerted while the matter remains open. An expression of concern may later be followed by a correction, a retraction, or a notice that the concern was resolved.
Addendum or update
Published when significant new information about the article's content comes to light that readers should know of, but that does not make the original wrong.
Removal
An article is removed from the website only in exceptional circumstances: where it is defamatory, infringes a legal right, is the subject of a court order, or where its continued availability would pose a serious risk to health or safety. In such cases the article's metadata, title and authors remain, and a notice explains that the article has been removed and why.
What happens to corrected or retracted articles
The original article is never deleted. Readers who followed a citation to the article will always find it, and will always be told its current status.
- The notice — correction, retraction, expression of concern or addendum — is published as a separate item in the journal, is given its own DOI, and is linked from the original article and back again, so that each can be reached from the other.
- A retracted article remains available online, clearly marked as retracted on its page and with the word RETRACTED watermarked on every page of its PDF, and its title in the journal's contents and search results is prefixed “Retracted:”.
- The article's Crossmark metadata is updated, so that the Crossmark button on the article page and in its PDF shows the current status and links to the notice.
- Indexing and abstracting services that carry the article are informed so that their records show the same status.
- Corrections that change the article itself are made in a new version of the record, with the notice stating what changed; the earlier version remains available on request.
Versions
The article as first published on the journal website is the version of record. It is not edited after publication except through the notices described above, and every such notice is dated. If you are citing a JST article, you can rely on the Crossmark button, or on the article's DOI, to tell you whether it has since been corrected, updated or retracted.
Contact
Questions about this policy, and all concerns about published content, should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief at editor@jst.org.in.
Longman Publishers, #201, 2nd Floor, 2-4-674, Road No. 10, New Nagole, Kothapet, Hyderabad 500068, Telangana, India.
Effective from 16 September 2026.
