Retraction Regulations of Petroleum Reservoir Evaluation and Development

The Editorial Department of Petroleum Reservoir Evaluation and Development made the following provisions for retraction proposed by the authors or the department:

1. Author withdraws the manuscript on his/her own initiative

1) After successfully submitting a manuscript online, the author shall explain the situation to the editorial department if he/she applies to withdraw the paper due to his/her own reasons.

2) If the manuscript submitted has passed the review, the author shall fill in the "Application Form for Author to Withdraw the Manuscript".

3) If the manuscript has entered the editing and typesetting process and needs to be withdrawn on the author’s demand, in addition to filling in the "Application Form for Author to Withdraw the Manuscript", the author shall pay the cost of reviewing, editing and typesetting to the editorial department.

4) If the author has withdrawn manuscript for two times in total, the editorial department has the right to reject the manuscripts of which the author is the first author or corresponding author within one year.

2. The editorial department retracts the manuscript

1) After accepting a manuscript, if the editorial department finds any academic misconduct, the editorial department will contact the author, submit relevant materials to the editorial board, and make the decision of retraction.

2) If the manuscript has not been officially published, the editorial department shall retract the manuscript and fill in the "Instruction for Retraction by the Editorial Department".

3) If the manuscript has been officially published, the editorial department will publish the " Statement of Retraction" on the website of Reservoir Evaluation and Development and on the latest issue of the journal and send the statement to relevant databases to remove all the data and information of the manuscript.

4) For the first author and corresponding author of a manuscript involved in academic misconduct, the editorial department will reject their submissions within three years.