Publication ethics

Cuadernos del CEMYR maintains that its Publication ethics and malpractice statement (PEMS) supports the combined efforts of the authors, the Editorial Board and the Reviewer Board, as well as the peer reviewers to produce a responsible research publication. This statement is based on ethical principles that comply with the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and other international associations.

 

1. Author responsibilities

Manuscripts sent for publication must be based on original, unpublished research. They must include data obtained and used, and objectively discuss the results. They must provide enough information so that any specialist can reproduce the research and confirm or reject the interpretations upheld in the manuscript.

Authors must be aware of and refrain from participating in inappropriate scientific misconduct and violating publishing ethics.

Authors must present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification, or inappropriate data manipulation.

All authors shall guarantee that the data and results given in the manuscript are original and have not been copied, fabricated, falsified or manipulated.

Any form of plagiarism, multiple, redundant publication or data fabrication or manipulation constitutes serious ethical malpractice and is considered scientific misconduct.

Authors must provide appropriate authorship and acknowledgement. Authors must refrain from deliberately misrepresenting a scientist’s relationship with published work. All authors must have significantly contributed to the research.

Authors must inform the journal when they have a direct or indirect conflict of interest with editors or members of Cuadernos del CEMYR’s Editorial Board or Scientific Advisory Board.

No significant part of the article shall have been previously published either as an article or as a chapter, or be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

If authors were to find a serious mistake in their manuscript, they must inform the journal’s editor-in-chief as soon as possible to modify, withdraw or retract the paper or publish a correction or errata notice.

If any of the members of the Editorial Board detects a possible mistake, authors must prove that their manuscript is error free.

For all materials submitted, all authors must participate in the peer review process and to follow publication guidelines.

 

1. Editor responsibilities

The Editorial Team (Board of Directors, Editorial Board, and Scientific Advisory Board) will be impartial when handling manuscripts submitted for publication and must respect the intellectual independence of authors, who should be given the right to reply if they receive negative feedback.

Editorial Board and Scientific Advisory Board members must keep all manuscript content confidential until it has been accepted for publication. Only then can the title and authorship be disclosed.

Moreover, Editorial Board or Scientific Advisory Board members must not use any data, line of research or interpretations in unpublished works for their own research, except with express written consent from the author.

2.1. Publication decision

All contributions will be initially assessed by the Cuadernos del CEMYR’s Editorial Board. The Editorial Board is solely and independently responsible for selecting, processing, and deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal meet the editorial goals and could thus be published. Each paper considered suitable is sent to two independent peer reviewers who are experts in their field and able to assess the specific qualities of the work. The Editors are responsible for informing the Editorial Board about the final result of peer review process for each article submitted to the journal. In turn, the Editorial Board is responsible for final decision regarding whether or not the paper might be accepted or rejected.

The decision to publish a paper will always be measured in accordance to its importance to researchers, practitioners, and potential readers. Editors and members of the Editorial Board should make unbiased decisions independent from commercial considerations.

Members of the Editorial Board who make final decisions about manuscripts (and the Editors beforehand) should withdraw from editorial decisions if they have conflicts of interest or relationships that pose potential problems concerning articles under consideration. The responsibility of the final decision regarding publication will be attributed to an editor who does not have any conflicts of interest.

2.2. Peer review

Each article submitted is the responsibility of one member of the Editorial Board or of the international Scientific Advisory Board, who undertakes to have it evaluated by two peers who are experts in the field and who evaluate it anonymously.

Reviewed articles are treated confidentially by the Editorial board members, the international Scientific Advisory Board and the reviewers.

The Editorial Board will assess and acknowledge the input of all those involved in the review of the manuscript submitted to the journal. It will also encourage academic authorities to acknowledge peer review activities as part of the scientific process, and should decline reviewers whose submit reports that are of poor quality, improper, disrespectful or that are delivered after the agreed deadline.

2.3. Identifying and preventing misconduct

In no case shall a journal and members of the Editorial Board and the international Scientific Advisory Board encourage misconduct of any kind or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.

Members of the Editorial Board, international Scientific Advisory Board and reviewers shall try to prevent misconduct by informing authors and reviewers about the ethical conduct required of them.

Members of the Editorial Board, international Scientific Advisory Board, and reviewers are asked to be aware of all types of misconduct in order to identify papers where research misconduct of any kind has or seems to have occurred and deal with the allegations accordingly.

In case of misconduct, the journal editor is responsible for resolving the issue. He or she can work in conjunction with the other co-editor, members of the Editorial Board and international Scientific Advisory Board, peer reviewers, and experts in the field.

The issue will be documented accordingly. All factual questions should be documented: who, what, when, where, why. All relevant documents should be kept, in particular the article(s) concerned.

The journal editor shall contact the author or publication involved, either the author submitting or another publication or author. The author is thus given the opportunity to respond to or comment on the complaint, allegation, or dispute.

In the event that misconduct has or seems to have occurred, or in the case of needed corrections, the Editorial Board deals with the different cases by following the appropriate COPE recommendations.

Great care will be taken to distinguish cases of honest human error from deliberate intent to cheat.

The editorial board will consider retracting a publication in case of misconduct, issuing an expression of concern in case of inconclusive proof of misconduct; or issuing a request for the correction of a misleading segment.

 

For more information about Cuadernos del CEMYR's Publication Decision, Peer Review and Identifying and Preventing Misconduct during the editorial process and the peer review system, go to the About, Editorial Process, and Submissions.

 

1. Reviewer responsibilities

All reviewers must know and keep in mind the editorial policy and the publication ethics and publication malpractice statement. They must also follow the recommendations in the journal’s Guide for reviewers.

Reviewed articles are treated confidentially by reviewers and members of Cuadernos del CEMYR’s Editorial Board and Scientific Advisory Board.

Cuadernos del CEMYR requires reviewers to have scientific expertise or significant work experience in their field. They must have recently conducted research work and/or completed works and have acquired recognised expertise by their peers. Potential reviewers should provide personal and professional information which is accurate, and which gives a fair representation of their expertise.

All reviewers must likewise withdraw if they know they are unqualified to evaluate a manuscript, if they feel their evaluation of the material will not be objective, or if they understand themselves to be in a conflict of interest.

Reviewers should point out relevant published work which has not yet been cited in the reviewed material. If necessary, the editor may issue a correction request to this effect.

Reviewers are asked to identify papers where research misconduct has or seems to have occurred and inform the Editorial Board, which will deal with each case accordingly.

 

1. Conflicts of interest

Members of the Editorial Board and reviewers shall withdraw in any case of conflict of interest with an author or authors, or with the content of a manuscript to be evaluated.

Cuadernos del CEMYR avoid all conflict of interest between authors, reviewers, and members of the Editorial Board and scientific committee.

The editors and reviewers should withdraw from making decisions if:

• There is a direct-reporting relationship between an author and a reviewer.
• There is recent, significant professional collaboration between reviewers and authors.
• An editor or reviewer is a collaborator on the project that is being submitted.
• The editor or reviewer has a financial interest in a company or competing company with a financial interest in the submission.
• The editor or reviewer believes that he or she cannot be objective, whether due to personal reasons or a financial interest otherwise not covered in the policy.

All authors must specify the existence of any commercial, financial or personal relationship that may have influenced the study conclusions or review process. Moreover, all sources of research funding must be disclosed. This information will not be included in the article, if it were to be accepted for publication.

Manuscripts with conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with institutions connected to the document shall not be considered.

Editorial Board and Reviewer Board members and peer reviewers must withdraw if there is a conflict of interest with an author or authors, or the content of a manuscript under review.

 

1. Originality and plagiarism

Authors shall guarantee that the data and results included in the manuscript are original and have not been copied, fabricated, falsified or manipulated. Any form of plagiarism, multiple, redundant publication or data fabrication or manipulation constitutes serious ethical malpractice and is considered scientific misconduct.

Authors must not send Cuadernos del CEMYR manuscripts that are being considered for publication simultaneously in another journal. Likewise, authors must not send their manuscript to other journals until they are informed that it has been rejected or they voluntarily withdraw it from publication.

However, manuscripts based on a previously published work like a report or a brief communication or conference abstract can be sent for publication provided that the source is appropriately cited and that the new manuscript is considerably different to the previous publication. In any case, secondary publications are not permitted in Cuadernos del CEMYR, even if the subsequent manuscript is aimed at a different readership.

 

1. Identifying and preventing misconduct

In no case shall Cuadernos del CEMYR Editorial Board or Scientific Advisory Board members encourage misconduct of any kind, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place. Editorial Board and Scientific Advisory Board members shall try to prevent misconduct by informing authors and reviewers about the ethical conduct required of them.

Editorial Board and Scientific Advisory Board members and reviewers are asked to be aware of all types of misconduct in order to identify papers where research misconduct of any kind has or seems to have occurred and deal with the allegations accordingly.

In case of misconduct, Cuadernos del CEMYR’s editor-in-chief is responsible for resolving the issue. He or she can work in conjunction with another co-editor, Editorial Board and Scientific Advisory Board members, reviewers, and experts in the field.

The issue will be documented accordingly. All questions should be documented (who, what, when, where, why). All relevant documents should be kept, in particular, the article(s) concerned.

The Cuadernos del CEMYR editor-in-chief shall contact the author or publication involved, either the author submitting or another publication or author. The author is thus given the opportunity to respond to or comment on the complaint, allegation or dispute.

In the event that misconduct has or seems to have occurred, or in the case of needed corrections, the Editorial Board deals with the different cases by following the appropriate COPE recommendations. Great care will be taken to distinguish cases of honest human error from deliberate intent to defraud

The Editorial Board will consider retracting a publication in case of misconduct, issuing an expression of concern in case of inconclusive proof of misconduct; or issuing a request for the correction of a misleading segment.

 

1. Corrections and retractions policy

7.1. Article retraction

An article can be retracted at any time before it is formally published online in its final version with full information about the volume, issue, page numbers, etc. If the author requests to retract the article, he or she must send a signed letter to Cuadernos del CEMYR’s editor-in-chief before the article can be retracted. The editor-in-chief may retract an article if it breaches the publication ethics guidelines, as a result of duplicate publication, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, multiple submissions or false claims of authorship. In both cases, the PDF of the article will be removed and a note will be displayed indicating that the article was retracted.

7.2. Article corrections

If an error is discovered in a published article, an Erratum, Corrigendum or Addendum will be published once Cuadernos del CEMYR’s editor and editor-in-chief have agreed on the changes. Only significant corrections will be published (for example, incorrectly published information). Minor corrections like spelling and grammatical errors which do not alter the understanding of the paper will not be corrected. When a correction is published, the original article reference will be given in the corrected PDF and vice versa. In any case, only the corrections will be mentioned.

The original article will not be modified but the link to the correction will be available on the article page. This will help readers download both of the PDF files. Errata will only be published when mistakes are found in the published article that went unnoticed during editing and layout setting in figures, tables, etc.

Corrigenda will be published when authors realise that errors in the published article could affect the validity or accuracy of the scientific content. If a reader detects an error in a published article, they can send a letter to Cuadernos del CEMYR's editor-in-chief. The author, editor and a reviewer would then assess the validity of the error pointed out. A Corrigendum will then be published with reference to the letter and the answers provided by the author.

Addenda are published if authors omitted significant information inadvertently during manuscript submission and would like to add this content to the article after publication. The information provided for the addendum will undergo peer-review prior to editorial acceptance. In any case, Addendum publication is very rare and will be allowed by the Editorial team only if the information is very much essential to understand a significant portion of the published article.

7.3. Retractions and expressions of concern

The Editorial Board reserves the right to retract articles that are found not to be reliable due to an unintentional error, scientific misconduct or malpractice: fabrication, manipulation or misappropriation of data, plagiarism and redundant or duplicate publications, omission of references to the sources used, use of content without permission or justification, etc. The decision to retract is based on the need to correct the scientific record of publication and thereby guarantee its integrity.

In case of a conflict regarding duplicate publication caused by the simultaneous publication of the same article in two different journals, the date the manuscript was received by each journal will be used to decide which of the two versions should be retracted.

Cuadernos del CEMYR will publish a retraction notice in the volume that the article in question is published. The notice will mention the reasons for the retraction to indicate if it was due to misconduct or an unintentional error. The journal will notify the responsible authorities at the authors’ institution of the retraction. The decision to retract an article must be reached as soon as possible to prevent the misleading article from being cited by other researchers.

Retracted articles will remain available in the electronic edition of the journal, and will be identified clearly and unambiguously as retracted in order to distinguish retractions from other corrections or commentaries.

Prior to final retraction, Cuadernos del CEMYR may issue an expression of concern in which the necessary information is provided with the same wording as used for a retraction. The expression of concern will be used for as brief a period as possible and will be withdrawn or superseded, if appropriate, by formal retraction of the article.