Plagiarism and Bad Practices
The editors will invest efforts in the prevention of bad practices and unethical behavior in the publication of articles, not tolerating any type of plagiarism.
The journal performs plagiarism detection procedures on the following platforms: Google Scholar, Duplichecker and PaperRater.
The journal considers the following behaviours as bad practices:
- Submission simultaneously the same paper for review and publication in two or more journals.
- Omission or lack of recognition of the contributions (original sources) of other researchers: Authors must appropriately cite the texts, works and methodologies of other researchers that allowed to design the project, obtain and discuss the results of the submitted manuscript.
- Any materials with the rights of third-party authors NOT submitted with the corresponding permission: The authors must cite the authorship and origin of all the images that they include in their texts (tables, graphs, maps, photographs, etc.). If necessary, the authors will be responsible for managing the reproduction permissions.
- Undeclared conflicts of interest: All authors must express the potential conflicts of interest associated with the publication.
- Errors admitted in published articles: When any author discovers an error in the work already published that could affect the validity of the results, they will be obliged to immediately notify the editor of the journal and cooperate so that the article is retracted or corrected.
The consequence of the use of bad practices in an article submitted for evaluation will be an eventual rejection, while the bad practices are corrected. Then, it would be turned over for evaluation.
