Ethical statement and good practices
The Gregório Semedo: Science and Development editorial team is committed to the scientific community in guaranteeing the ethics and quality of published articles, based on the code of conduct and good practices that the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) defines for editors. of scientific journals.
Mendive follows a rigorous control procedure for the originals received to avoid bad scientific practices and guides its users in maintaining correct ethics on publication.
To this end, the international standards established by COPE are followed, subscribing to the standards for editors established at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity in Singapur in 2010.
In order to facilitate the decision-making process in cases where unethical behavior is detected or observed, a protocol inspired by the Publishing Ethics Resource Kit (PERK) model is followed:
- Authorship conflicts
- Plagiarism
- Duplication concurrent publications or simultaneous submissions to several publications
- Appropriation of research results
- Fraud or research errors
- Violation of research standards
- Undisclosed conflicts of interest
- Reviewer bias.
In this regard, the Gregório Semedo: Science and Development editorial committee follows the decision flows recommended by Wiley's Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics manual. And evaluation tools are used to detect bad practices in order to guarantee compliance with the quality standards of the publication, and maintain the original and unpublished nature of the published results.
Mendive uses different original analysis and anti-plagiarism systems in its peer review process in order to detect bad practices. In this sense, the Gregório Semedo: Science and Development Editorial Committee, with the desire to be rigorous in the detection of fraudulent actions, has defined the use of the following tools:
