Ethics of publication
Conduct, complaints and retractions
In order to ensure a harmonious relationship between the parties involved and to guarantee the quality of the contents, EVSOS urges authors, reviewers, as well as members of the Editorial Board and the Scientific Committee, to maintain standards of intellectual and scientific integrity.
Code of ethics
Obligations of the Editor:
To consult the Editorial Board to resolve problems related to the journal's editorial policy.
To give an official certificate to the reviewers for each opinion issued.
To ensure the validity of the journal's legal registrations.
To ensure that the publication process complies with copyright regulations.
To manage the material and human resources before the corresponding institutions for the proper functioning of the journal.
Duties of the Editorial Committee:
To select and assign the reviewers of the papers received by the journal, based on their experience as researchers in the corresponding subject area.
To communicate to the authors the results of the evaluation process to which the work received by the journal has been subjected.
To keep the identity of the reviewers confidential.
Reject those proposals for collaboration that are published in other printed or electronic journals, as well as those that constitute total or partial plagiarism.
To carry out a basic review of the papers received before sending them for external review and to notify the authors of this decision.
Resolve any conflicts that may arise in the evaluation and editing process, based on the recommendations of the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE).
To propose initiatives that lead to an improvement of the journal in its different aspects: quality, visibility, presentation.
To assist in the editing process.
Obligations of reviewers:
To declare and explain, if there is any, a conflict of interest in order to give their opinion.
To treat the text they have been assigned to review as confidential.
Maintain the secrecy of their participation as reviewer even after the work has been published.
Not to transfer their role as reviewer to other researchers.
Give their verdict according to the merits and/or weaknesses of the assigned text, using the opinion form available to them.
Send the results of their evaluation within the period established by the journal.
Not to quote or copy the text entrusted to them.
More information about the process in the peer review section.
Obligations of the authors:
Send unpublished collaborative proposals, which are not in other editorial processes.
Follow the EVSOS publication guidelines.
Correct, expand or improve their texts, once they have been accepted for publication, taking into account the reviewers' comments.
Send corrections to their texts within the period requested by the journal.
Intellectual property
The following behaviours are considered unacceptable:
Plagiarism: failure to cite or otherwise acknowledge in any writing, essay, exercise, written examination, project, practical work submitted for marking, of ideas, phrases or sentences taken from another source such as a published text, the work of another person, internet materials unless authorship is obvious from the context. You can read more about this in our anti-plagiarism policy.
Self-plagiarism: the submission of the same or substantial parts of the same work in more than one graded exercise without the explicit permission of the teachers concerned.
Submission of someone else's work: Submission of work as one's own when it has been prepared by or commissioned from someone else.
Cheating: giving, receiving, assisting or making unauthorised use of information from any written source, another person, another's written work or any other source during an examination.
Falsification of a paper: falsifying or tampering with information, evidence or other material in an examination or paper to be graded.
Impermissible collaboration: the involvement of third parties, whether graded or not, in the preparation of the paper(s) to be assessed.
Conduct, complaints and retractions
In any case of misconduct, complaint, appeal or retraction of an accepted or published article, interested parties should contact editorial@revistaevsos.com directly.
It is also possible to request the withdrawal of an article by authors that has been accepted or published in EVSOS.
Letter of Acceptance Usage Statement
If, in the reasons given, the author(s) state that they have submitted the same article for consideration in two journals at the same time, they will not be able to re-submit articles to EVSOS as this action is considered a breach of our publication ethics policy.
The reader, editor, author or reviewer should be aware that EVSOS uses COPE as a reference for any situation relevant to our publication ethics policy.
