Institutional standard / record integrity
Corrections & Versioning
How Xenopsychology distinguishes minor corrections, substantive revisions, supersession, withdrawal, and retraction while preserving an intelligible scholarly record.
A correction should improve the record without rewriting the history of the record.
Corrections & Versioning
How Xenopsychology distinguishes minor corrections, substantive revisions, supersession, withdrawal, and retraction while preserving an intelligible scholarly record.
A correction should improve the record without rewriting the history of the record.
Minor correction
Typographical, formatting, link, or other non-substantive fixes may be corrected without creating a new conceptual edition, provided the change does not alter the meaning of a scholarly claim or result.
Substantive revision
Changes to arguments, methods, measurements, interpretation, conclusions, authorship, or evidentiary status should create a visible revision event. The current version should identify its revision date and, where useful, summarize the nature of the change.
Superseded versions
When preservation is scientifically or historically relevant, prior public versions should remain identifiable rather than silently disappearing. Machine-readable records should carry explicit version and lineage fields.
Withdrawal and retraction
Withdrawal or retraction should not be used merely to hide an inconvenient result. The public record should state the status and, when legally and ethically possible, the reason. Retraction is reserved for work whose reliability or integrity has been materially compromised.