Plagiarism Policy

The Journal uses the CrossRef system to identify plagiarism.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

1) Responsibility of the authors

- The authors are responsible for the content of their articles, as well as for the copyright of images, videos, and any textual or complementary elements of their article.

 - The authors have agreed to work for free in the peer-review process for this journal in the future.

- The authors declare that hey have significant contribution to the research disclosed in their article, if applicable.

- The authors must offer to the journal retractions or corrections of possible errors.

- The authors must ensure that their text is original and must not submit the same text to more than one journal.

- The presentation of the opinion of the Ethics Committee of the researcher’s institution is mandatory if the article has been written based on a  research that involves risks to participants.

2) The review process

- All the content of the journal is subjected to peer review by the method of double-blind peer review.
- Peer review is the process of having opinions on individual  manuscripts of reviewers skilled in the field. This process is explicitly described on our website.
- The opinions should be as objective as possible and sufficiently grounded to improve  the research and the text assessed.

- The reviewers should not have conflicts of interest when performing a review and they declare this in writing in the system of thejournal.

- The reviewers should always address texts or excerpts already published and that have not been properly cited.
- All articles being reviewed are treated with confidentiality.

- The journal understands that any form of plagiarism is not acceptable and uses anti-plagiarism review tools.

- The final decision on the publication of an article is taken by the editors. Whenever an article has academic quality and meets the criteria established by the journal, it is forwarded to the double-blind peer review process, which is done by at least two reviewers.

- The only assessment criteria of the articles are their academic merit and their contribution to the improvement of the knowledge in the field; there is no discrimination of authors, for any reasons.

- Editors are not allowed to use information contained in the articles being reviewed without the explicit consent of the authors.

- The editors are available to answer any ethical question related to a submission.

3) Ethics in Publishing

- Editors take considerable efforts to avoid and prevent the publication of articles in which research misconduct occurred.
- Under no circumstances we encourage misconduct or allow them to happen.
- Any allegation of research misconduct is immediately investigated.

- The journal publishes errata to correct articles when necessary.
- The journal strives to publish corrections, clarifications, right of reply, retractions, and apologies when necessary.

4) Copyright and Universal Access

- The licenses used by the journals are described on the website.
- All articles are offered free of any access fees and are available in  their entirety to any reader without the need of registration or password.

5)  Other principles
- Information about property, copyrights, and/or management of the journal are explicitly indicated in the “about” section on the website of the journal.
- This journal publishes an issue every four months and also adopts “ahead of print”.
- This journal does not charge any fee for submission, assessment, or publication, but may require the translation of the article by the author.