Policy for Article Withdrawal Request from Authors

In line with other open-access journals, we provide a flat fee submission structure (depending on the journal) on the acceptance of a peer-reviewed article, which covers in part the entirety of the publication pathway (the article processing charge). The process includes our maintenance, submission, and peer review systems and international editing, publication, and submission to global indexing and tracking organizations, and archiving to allow instant access to the whole article and associated supplementary documents. We also have to ensure enough investment to secure a symbiotic and sustainable model that is ethically, legally, and financially stable. To evade gratuitous withdrawal of manuscripts, the Electronic Journal of Medical Research (EJMR) has declared the following withdrawal policy. The corresponding author or co-authors should acknowledge the following statements before sending a request for withdrawal.

• All authors, including the corresponding and co-authors, should confirm the number of authors, authorship, approval, and integrity of the manuscript before submission. In case of any differences of opinion, the concerns of all the authors must be addressed before submitting the manuscript for publication.
• Research students or Researchers should take prior permission from their guides and professors before sending/submitting their manuscripts to EJMR.
• Authors should follow the publication ethics.
• The manuscript must be appropriately withdrawn from any previous publisher (if submitted).
• It is unacceptable to withdraw a manuscript from the journal because it is being accepted by another journal.
• Before submitting the manuscript, authors should carefully confirm that the facts and data presented in the manuscript are accurate and error-free.
• All authors must agree to publish the articles in a specific journal before submission.

Unethical Withdrawal

• Withdrawal at an advanced stage in the editorial process, such as when peer reviews are close to completion, is unacceptable unless there are compelling reasons.
• If the author withdraws a manuscript after publication, the article publication charges, if paid by the authors, will not be refunded.
• If the authors do not respond to the communication from the editorial office, even after multiple reminders, at any stage of the publication process, EJMR holds all rights to disclose the conduct of the authors and content of the manuscript without further approval from the authors, and cannot be held responsible for the consequences arising from it.
• Withdrawal of a manuscript will be permitted only for the most compelling and unavoidable reasons. For withdrawal of a manuscript, authors need to submit an "Article withdrawal Form", signed by all authors, mentioning the reason for withdrawal, to the Editorial Office. The form is available from the editorial office of the journal. Authors must not assume that their manuscript has been withdrawn until they have received appropriate notification to this effect from the editorial office.
• In a case where a manuscript has taken more than six months’ time for the review process, the author may withdraw the manuscript without paying any charges.

Withdrawal Form

EJMR Editorial Office will provide the corresponding author with a formal letter of Manuscript Withdrawal. Withdrawal of manuscripts is only allowed after the withdrawal penalty has been fully paid to the EJMR. As per the policy, we declare that in case of withdrawal, the withdrawal charges will be applicable.