Publication Ethics
The UCV-Scientia Journal assumes the COPE code of conduct for editors and the "Principles of Transparency and Good Practices in Academic Publications" (Publications Ethics Committee), as well as the recommendations of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) to which it belongs, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and the "SciELO Guide of Good Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publishing".
All articles are submitted to the Turnitin anti-plagiarism program to prevent academic fraud and are accepted for review if they have less than 15% similarity, otherwise they are returned for initial review for correction.
In compliance with these good practices, the journal makes sure to monitor the scientific quality of the publications and the adequate response to the needs of its readers, authors and reviewers. The corrections, retractions and clarifications that are necessary will be published by the editor of the Magazine. In addition, in the peer review process, the journal has published the type of arbitration it performs in the selection of papers and guarantees the confidentiality of the evaluation process.
Some of the responsibilities are listed below:
1. Responsibilities of the editors and the editorial committee:
• Selection of publication: The editor and the editorial committee are responsible for the selection of articles that will be published in the journal.
• Confidentiality agreement: The editor and any member of the journal team must ensure the confidentiality and anonymity of the manuscript with respect to reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisors, or the publisher.
2. Responsibilities of reviewers:
• Confidentiality: Any manuscript submitted for review must be considered a confidential document.
• Timeliness: Reviewers must inform the editor and decline to review an article in the event that he/she knows that he/she will not be able to review the material in a timely manner, or if he/she does not have sufficient knowledge on the subject. from the article.
• Input into editorial evaluation: Evaluations provide critical information for the editor and for the decision-making process.
• Transparency and interests: Private information or ideas collected through peer review must remain private and not be used for the benefit of the reviewer.
3. Responsibilities of the author:
• Research principles: Authors are responsible for submitting an original manuscript. Deliberately false or incorrect statements constitute unethical activities and will not be tolerated. Submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals and/or publishing the same work in multiple journals is unethical publishing behavior and will not be tolerated.
• Authenticity and plagiarism: Plagiarism in any form is unethical editorial behavior and will not be tolerated.
• Article authorship: Authorship belongs to those individuals who made a significant contribution to the design, execution, or understanding of the manuscript. When the authorship is shared, it must be formally declared that the authors have contributed intellectually to its preparation and agree with the content of the manuscript, see the use of Taxonomy Credit in the regulations.
Errata and retractions
The Journal follows the recommendations issued by COPE in order to avoid bad scientific practices, it is willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions when necessary according to the following types of errors:
Major errors (falsification, fabrication or plagiarism): In the event that a published article presents substantive errors detected by the author and that violates the scientific quality, withdrawal or correction may be requested. However, if they are detected by third parties: plagiarism, previous publication, unethical conduct or error, it is the author's obligation to publicly retract, with which the withdrawal or public correction will proceed immediately. The public correction or retraction will be made in the following issue.
Minor errors (errors in sampling, procedural, or data analysis, failure to reproduce results, accidental omission of information about methods or data analysis): When an error or material inaccuracy is discovered in the published document, it is an obligation to notify the journal and retract or correct the document.
Interest conflict
All manuscripts that are the product of a funded investigation must have publication permission from the funding institution.
Both authors and reviewers are notified of the importance of declaring any conflict of interest for personal, economic, and political reasons.
