Declaration of publishing ethics and best editorial practices

Ethics Code

Ethical statment on publication and Good editorial practices

 

EIRENE PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES is committed to the scientific community to guarantee the ethics and quality of the published articles. Our journal takes as a reference the Code of conduct and good practices defined by the Publications Ethics Committee (COPE) for editors of scientific journals (http://publicationethics.org). At the same time, it guarantees an adequate response to the needs of readers and authors, ensuring the quality of what is published, protecting, and respecting the content of the articles, as well as their integrity.

Responsibilities or behavior of:

 The Editor

• Take care of the impartiality both in the reception of the articles and in the failure of the evaluation.
• Act always in accordance with the editorial criteria and the editorial line.
• Act always with honesty when evaluating the documents sent to the journal for publication, when analyzing their contents objectively and according to scientific and / or academic merits, without discrimination of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, nationality, political opinion of the authors.
• The academic review of articles is governed by the blind peer system, so the journal undertakes to take care of the anonymity of authors and reviewers.
• Eirene Peace and Conflict Studies adheres to the open access philosophy; therefore, its content is not for commercial purposes, which is always guaranteed by the editorial team.
• The editorial team can clarify doubts to authors and reviewers in the review and editing process.
• The directors of the journal guarantee that they will make the results of the opinion process known exclusively to the authors, through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.
• Plagiarism behaviors are not admitted by Eirene Peace and Conflict Studies, in this sense, all articles are analyzed with specialized plagiarism detection software. Any case detected will imply the rejection of the article, which will be notified to the authors of the article and will not be given the possibility of submitting another manuscript in the journal.
• In the cases that are required, the journal will publish the corresponding and necessary clarifications and corrections

The authors

• Authors must guarantee that the articles are the product of their original document as researchers and that the data presented has been obtained in an ethical manner, so they must guarantee that they do not infringe copyright.
• The article may not be totally or partially submitted to another publication.
• Authors may not submit redundant publications, meaning that two or more documents share the same data, hypotheses, discussion points or conclusions.
• Those documents in co-authorship must have a justification that expresses the full consensus of adherence to the guidelines of all the authors involved.
• Authors must guarantee strict adherence and acceptance to the editorial criteria established by Eirene Peace and Conflict Studies.
• It is the obligation of the authors to respect the authorship of all the sources that have been used in the elaboration of their article; therefore, you must provide accurate data from bibliographic, newspaper, electronic, and other data collection techniques. You also agree not to omit any significant material.
• Address the observations of the editorial and academic opinions in a timely and clear manner.
• Incurring any breach of the above points constitutes unethical and unacceptable conduct; consequently, the proposed article will be eliminated and not considered for publication; likewise, the author may not be considered for any activity related to the magazine.

Reviewers

• They must commit to maintaining the confidentiality of the information related to the articles they evaluate.
• They cannot make any kind of dissemination or distribution of the information presented in the article they are evaluating until the moment it is published by the journal.
• They undertake to carry out the opinion in an objective, impartial, responsible, and rigorous manner.
• Demonstrate willingness to clarify doubts and all matters related to compliance in each of the stages that comprise the opinion process.
• When incurring in any fault to the previous points, the magazine reserves the right to provide proof of its membership in the portfolio of arbitrators.

Editorial conflicts and infringements

The following actions are established as undesirable conduct and violations of the editorial process. Persons who perform one or more of these actions are subject to an investigation process and the Editorial Board has the right to make the decision and take the disciplinary actions it deems appropriate for each case.

False authorship

This refers to the recognition of one or more persons as authors of an article, but who did not make a significant or weighty contribution for such recognition; or the lack of recognition of a person who did participate actively and was not recognized as such. There are three types of false authorship:

Ghost author: person who substantially participated in the study and meets the author criteria but was not credited with authorship.

Guest author: person who did not make a significant contribution to the study but is included in the list of authors to increase the visibility of the article (e.g., the case of a renowned researcher).

Gift author: person who did not participate in the investigation, but is included in the authorship because of his or her institutional position or link to the other authors (e.g., the head of a department).

Plagiarism

Refers to the action of using information of any kind from another source without due acknowledgment of the respective authorship. It includes: literal copying (word for word) and paraphrased copying (reproduction of another's ideas with different words).

To detect plagiarism, Eirene Studies of Peace and Conflicts  makes use of the Ithenticate software, which it uses as a basis for identifying bibliographic inconsistencies in articles.

Self-plagiarism

Refers to the action of using information that is the author's own but has been previously published, without due indication of this publication status.

Conflicts of interest not indicated

This refers to the lack of mention of financial or institutional relationships with entities linked to an investigation, and where a personal or economic interest may have been involved in order to modify the results of the study in favor of those interests.

Scientific fraud

Refers to the manipulation of data, or creation of false data, for personal interests. It also includes the manipulation of images.

Segmented publication

Or salami slicing, refers to the split publication of the results of a research, in such a way that this splitting responds to interests of increasing the number of published articles and not to the healthy dissemination of science. This includes the publication of more than one article with the same hypothesis, population and methods.

Simultaneous/duplicate publication

This refers to the submission of the same article to two or more journals at the same time, or of two or more articles that share very similar information, without the knowledge of the editors.

In case the article is published:

Retraction: It refers to the action of removing the article from the website and other means of dissemination available on the web, and the publication of an official communication to the general public on the reasons for such decision.

Correction: Refers to the publication of a new version with an indication of the change made.

In case the article is not yet published:

Rejection: The article will be rejected from publication in Eirene Estudios de Paz y Conflictos.

In any of these cases, the decision will be communicated to the author.

Final Statements

These guidelines are considered general for the regulation of processes in Eirene Estudios de Paz y Conflictos. For the analysis of specific cases, the international standards of ethics in scientific publication will be used, through the use of the flow charts recommended by COPE and other reference materials.