Annulations

The Rule of Annulation

Every type of scientific publication (working paper, research report, internal journal, bulletin) has been reviewed by the assembly of the Board of Science. However, the refutability is never ending in every scientific community. The history of science in our civilization told us much about it.

Every suspiciousness of scientific fallacies respect to any publications in BFI can invite the assembly of the Board of Science to re-review them. The result can be annulation by respecting some of this terms:

the originality of the paper; there should not be any plagiation cases in BFI.
the completeness of the paper regarding any references used and the appropriateness of the references used in the paper. A paper can be annulled by inadequate and improper references or citated works.
the tendency and the spirit of the paper; a paper must reflect the genuinly the spirit of the will to know and any major research theme brought by BFI. A paper can be annulled by the fact that the paper is antagonistic to the spirit and the theme brought by BFI.
the misleading result concluded in the paper; a paper can be annulled by the fact of misleading, wrong, and false conclusions taken by the paper. This is done by checking the use of scientific terms hold by BFI as a research university on complexity in Indonesia.

The annulation can only be done by the assembly of the Board of Science Bandung Fe Institute. However, it is a long peer-reviewed needed to annulled a paper. Every decision annulling a paper is not debateable. The reason of the annullation is kept confidential in the institution of the Board of Science and any annulation process can be done with or without any notification to the author. The copyright of the paper once published but eventually annulled is returned to the author by the consequences that the paper is forbidden to be used in BFI circumstances. BFI is not responsible to the use of an annulled paper outside BFI circumstances.