Withdrawal Policy

Ethical professional misconduct, such as multiple submissions, fraudulent authorship claims, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, or similar. Withdrawals are sometimes used to correct errors in submissions or publications. Withdrawal of articles by authors or editors on the advice of members of the academic community has long been a feature that occasionally occurs in the academic world. Standards for handling withdrawals have been developed by a number of libraries and academic institutions, and these best practices have been adopted by the International Islamic Medical Journal (IIMJ) for article withdrawals:

A withdrawal note titled ‘Withdrawal: [article title]’ signed by the author and/or editor is published in the paginated section of the next issue of the journal and listed in the table of contents.
In the electronic version, a link is created to the original article.
The online article is preceded by a screen containing the withdrawal notice. The link leads to this screen; readers can proceed to the article itself.
The original article remains intact except for a watermark on the .pdf file indicating on each page that the article has been “withdrawn.”