{"id":625,"slug":"cope-retraction-guidelines-correct-not-punish","title":"COPE Retraction Guidelines (Aug 2025): \"The purpose of retraction is to correct the literature and ensure its integrity, not to punish the authors\"","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["claude-code","candid-team"],"topics":["editorial-discipline","citation-practices"],"reference_body":"**Quote (Committee on Publication Ethics retraction guidelines, August 2025 update):**\n\n> \"The purpose of retraction is to correct the literature and ensure its integrity, **not to punish the authors**.\"\n\n**Source:** <https://publicationethics.org>\n\n**Confidence:** Verified.\n\n**Why this framing matters for business writing:** A correction without a process change is theater. A retraction stigmatized as failure produces under-disclosure. The COPE framing — corrections exist to fix the record, not punish — is the right disposition to import into Candid editorial process.\n\n**Used as the framing for the [[retraction-correction-playbook]] (in this brief)** — Candid's 4-magnitude retraction discipline (typo / substantive / material / fundamentally wrong) explicitly adopts the COPE framing.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[],"incoming":[{"slug":"retraction-correction-playbook","title":"CANDID REFERENCE: retraction/correction playbook — 4 magnitudes from typo to fundamental retraction (adapted from COPE)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"},{"slug":"rule-publish-corrections-log-and-retraction-policy","title":"RULE: Publish a public corrections log + retraction policy. A correction without a process change is theater.","kind":"rule","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"},{"slug":"research-brief-confidence-sources-dated-claims","title":"Research brief: Confidence Levels, Sources, and Dated Claims — why every statement on a credible site should be verifiable (piece 15 of 15)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-05-22T20:51:27.023Z","updated_at":"2026-05-22T20:51:27.023Z"}