New versions, amendments and retraction

Nothing on ARIADNE is ever deleted: a new version adds to the record, an amendment is a publication of its own, and a retraction is a visible status, not an erasure. This page shows how the submitter (the wallet that published the article) does each of these from the article page. Confirmed co-authors have no editing rights; see co-authors. Terms such as CID and IPFS are explained in the glossary.

The statuses at a glance

Status	What it means	How it gets there
preprint	first public version	publishing
under review	the author invites reviews	the author, from preprint
closed version	the author closed it: no more versions (it says nothing about review; the seal does)	the author, from under review
disputed	enough flags were raised; under examination	automatically, by flags
retracted	withdrawn; still readable, permanently marked	the author, or governance after a dispute

You can…	preprint	under review	closed version	disputed	retracted
publish a new version	yes	yes	no	no	no
review it	yes	yes	yes	yes	no
vote for it, or for its reviews and comments	yes	yes	yes	no	no
claim reputation from it	yes	yes	yes	no	no
comment on it	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
flag it	yes	yes	yes	yes	no

A preprint cannot be closed directly: it goes to under review first. Statuses never go back, except that governance returns a disputed article to the status it had when it clears it. More in articles and their statuses.

All the actions below are in the box You are the submitter on the article page, shown only to the submitting wallet.

Publish a new version

You can publish a new version while the article is a preprint or under review.

1. Open the article and click New version.
2. The editor loads the text and the files of the current version, checked against its CID, with the header keys the blockchain checks (authors, fields, type, parent) already set. If the current version cannot be read from the gateway, the page says so and you start from the template.
3. Edit the text and the files. Keep the same header values: the fields, the type, the parent and the author list are fixed at publication.
4. Click Compute CID and pin (or use I have a CID, exactly as in publish an article).
5. Click Publish version N and sign.

What changes and what stays:

• The version number goes up by one and the article points to the new CID, which must differ from the current one.
• Every earlier version stays on record and readable: the Versions list on the article page gives each one’s CID, date and a link to its index.md.
• The article token’s metadata follows the current version.
• Reviews belong to the article, not to a version, and each reviewer reviews an article only once. Earlier reviewers answer a new version with a comment. The Peer-reviewed seal names the version the reviews that count were written on, and says when a later version has not been reviewed yet.
• If the article has a DOI from Zenodo, a later version becomes a new version of your Zenodo record; see get a DOI with Zenodo.

A new version needs no deposit, only network fees.

Move the article to under review

Under review tells readers you invite reviews. Click Change status, choose under review in New status, and click Set under review. Reviews are accepted in preprint too; the status is a signal, and you can still publish new versions.

Close the version

When you are done revising, move the article from under review to closed version: Change status, choose closed version, click Set closed version. On the blockchain this status is called “final”.

Closing only stops new versions. Reviews, votes, comments, reputation claims and flags continue, and declared co-authors can still confirm. It is not a seal and says nothing about review: the Peer-reviewed seal does. Close the article only when you no longer expect to answer reviews with a new version.

Publish an amendment

An amendment corrects or adds to an article without touching it. It is a separate publication with its own number, its own reviews and its own votes.

1. Open https://ariadne.press/testnet/publish.
2. Choose Type “amendment” and fill Parent article id with the number of the article you amend.
3. Choose the same fields as the parent article; the protocol recommends it.
4. Write what is corrected or added and why (the amendment template has sections for this), and publish as usual.

The parent may be in any status. The amendment’s page says “amends #N” with a link to the parent, and the amendment counts as a citation of it. Only an amendment has a parent, and every amendment must have one.

Retract an article

The submitter can retract an article that is a preprint, under review or a closed version. While it is disputed the author cannot change its status: governance decides, and one of its two outcomes is a retraction (see flag an article).

1. Click Change status and choose retracted in New status.
2. Click Retract and confirm the warning: “Retraction is final and forfeits unclaimed reputation.”
3. Sign in your wallet.

What retraction does:

• It is final. A retracted article can never change status again.
• Unclaimed reputation is lost. Every author loses the share of the article’s votes they had not claimed yet. Reputation already claimed, and what reviewers and commenters already received, stays: reputation never decreases. Claim your reputation before you retract if you want to keep it.
• The article stops taking part. No new versions, votes, reviews, flags, reputation claims or co-author confirmations, and no new DOI declarations. Comments remain possible.
• The seal is gone, and retracted articles are left out of citation counts and of Thread Score.
• The article token is revoked: its settings can never change again.

What stays: the article, every version and every review remain readable, and the content stays addressable on IPFS by its CID. The page shows a banner: “Retracted by the author. The content stays addressable; unclaimed reputation is forfeited.” A Zenodo record stays registered; edit its description on Zenodo to say the article was retracted.

What it costs

Changing the status and publishing a new version need no deposit, only network fees (a retraction pays one more for the token change). An amendment is a new publication: 0.2122 ALGO plus 0.0293 per declared co-author, plus fees. See costs and deposits.