Ethics and good practices

Research Ethics Standards

Revista Política, Globalidad y Ciudadanía welcomes the good practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which is responsible for the ethics and moral of scientific publications. The journal considers the international standards for editors and authors as reference and it incorporates them into its editorial management process, establishing an ethical guide for the editor, the authors and the reviewers.
 
Publishing Team
  • The editorial team must perform its editorial functions based on good scientific publishing practices, promoting transparency, originality, integrity and quality of all publications.
  • It must adopt measures for the detection of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, fraud by falsification or data manipulation of data, redundant or duplicate publication.
Editor
  • The editor is fully responsible for what it is published in the journal; he/she should base his/her decisions on the validity of the work and the importance it has for readers; therefore, he/she is free to express his/her opinions, derived from the review of the articles, critically but responsibly and respectfully.
  • Decisions to accept or reject an article for publication must be objective and based only on the importance, originality and clarity of the object of study.
  • He/she must maintain a cordial and respectful communication with the members of the editorial team, scientific and editorial committees, authors and reviewers.
  • He/she must encourage responsible behavior and discourage bad editorial practices.
  • He/she must act as guarantor of the confidentiality of the information contained in the manuscripts received and in the evaluation comments.
  • He/she must provide updated information on the authorship criteria following the international ethical standards of publication.
  • He/she must take corrective action in case of plagiarism or other misconduct.
  • He/she must inform the authors if the article will be admitted to the peer evaluation process.
  • He/she can remove out published articles in case of a proven practice.
Authors
  • Authors must be commited to the ethical and responsible development of their research.
  • Their research work must be produced by themselves, unpublished and original. They should not be plagarised self-plagarised.
  • They must provide their personal information correctly.
  • The articles must be coherent with the content of the work, that is, the identified research problem must correspond to the objectives, the methodology, the results and the conclusions of the article.
  • They must send in a transparent and original way all the documentation required by the publishing team
  • They must provide permits if resources of other authors’ resources were used (images, etc.).
  • They must confirm that the proposal of the manuscript has not been sent to another journal.
  • They agree on declaring any possible conflict of interest.
Reviewers
  • The reviewers must adopt an integral position when evaluating the articles; the review must be objective considering the content of the work.
  • The reviewers’ decisions must be based on accuracy and scientific quality.
  • Their comments should always be stated respectfully regarding the author’s work.
  • They should inform the editor if they detect similarity between the work they are reviewing and any other published article, or if they are aware of a similar work under review.
  • The reviewers will not have access to the author’s personal information, nor will they be able to ask for information about him/her.
  • They must send the evaluations in time and according to the journal’s requirements.

Declaration of conflicts of interest

The authors will not evidence conflicts arising from any type of commercial or other institutional association, in relation to what it is disclosed in the article. That is, giving negative concepts or judging in a very positive way what it is published due to personal interests, academic competences, or intellectual passion.
 
Authors who submitt research articles, review articles, and reviews to Revista Política, Globalidad y Ciudadanía, must guarantee that their procedures and methodologies conform to the ethical publishing codes whose guarantee will be included in the format acceptance or commitment of assignment of patrimonial rights of author and declaration of conflict of interest, which will be requested jointly with the sending of the article for its preliminary revision, making the authors fully responsible for unethical, discriminatory, offensive, aggressive practices, among others; in those that may have incurred within the research from which the article derives.
 
In the same way, the author is obliged to report any conflict of interest that his work may have, if this is the case. The person who sends the manuscript for publication will be identified as the guarantor of the work as a whole and communication will be established with him/her during the editing process.

Anti-Plagiarism Policy

Revista Política, Globalidad y Ciudadanía is governed by the rules of the Intellectual Property World Organization, which governs Mexico through the Federal Law of Copyright. For this reason, all articles submitted to the journal will be subject to verified using anti-plagiarism software.

Duplicate Publication

The article’s publication that coincides in content and structure with another previously published work in magnetic media or on paper, without granting credit to the initial source, constitutes an ethical violation to the publication standards Revista Política, Globalidad y Ciudadanía. Under the following situations:
 
Complete reproduction of a previously published article, joining two or more articles to produce another one, use of the sample of an original article reporting different results, as of new data to a preliminary article, use of part of the samples of a study with the same results and different samples and results of the original article.