Ethics and good practices

The editorial team of the Journal is committed to the scientific community to guarantee the ethics and quality of the published articles. The publication takes as a reference the code of conduct and good practices that the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE) defines for editors of scientific journals.

Duties of editors

The editor must always guarantee: fair play and editorial independence, confidentiality, disclosure of conflicts of interests, publication decisions, and participation and cooperation in research, following COPE rules.

Duties of Reviewers

Reviewers have a duty to: Contribute to editorial decisions, Promptness, Confidentiality, follow Standards of Objectivity, Acknowledgment of Sources, and Disclosure of any conflict of interest.

Duties of Authors

Authors must report data standards, access and retain data, ensure originality and avoid plagiarism, avoid multiple, duplicate, redundant, or concurrent submission/publication, ensure authorship of the manuscript disclosure of any conflict of interest , acknowledgment of sources, human or animal subject hazards (if required to declare), participating in peer review, and declaring fundamental errors in published works if necessary.

Duties of the Publisher

Handling Unethical Publishing Behavior and Assurance of access to the content of the journal.