Published in:
01-06-2017 | Editorial
Erratum, corrigenda et emendatio or "mistake, correction and amendment"
Author:
Marius M. Scarlat
Published in:
International Orthopaedics
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Issue 6/2017
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Excerpt
Traditionally and in conformity with the ethics - when some information is missing from a paper already published - the authors or the Editor would write an "Erratum" adding the missing data or make the amendments to correct and to make the information reliable. The good use of science requires precision and clarity, our Journal publishes implicitly sometimes "Erratae". Corrections, corrigenda and partial retractions (such as for a single graph, statement, table or image) for previously-published articles are all recorded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as errata. (1) Our Journal published five Errata since January 2016 that is quite honorable for an annual volume of over 2400 pages and almost 400 papers but still too much in our critical and picky approach. As in this issue we publish two "Erratum" we wondered what bad mistakes would a show a paper to require correction or at least public acknowledgement. …