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Ethics

Ciencia en Desarrollo has three main references in its ethics and scientific integrity policy:

 

1) COPE. The principles of transparency, good practices and flowcharts to prevent and resolve ethical dilemmas in scientific publication of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): https://publicationethics.org/

2) ICMJE. The recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) regarding the way to act, report, edit and publish scientific literature, under ethical principles and some key concepts in editing such as authorship, among others: https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/

3) Singapore. Singapore's statement on scientific integrity and the principles and responsibilities to be considered as a framework for research: https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2011.557296

 

Regarding the COPE, the journal assumes as its own in its daily management and in the handling of its decisions in the face of ethical dilemmas that arise, the 16 principles of transparency and good practices, as follows:

 

Contents of the journal

 

Name of the journal: The name of the journal is unambiguous and has not been modified over time.

Website: The journal's website publishes, in full, all the information on policy, processes, procedures and editorial structure, which gives a complete and accurate picture of what the journal is.

Editorial schedule: The frequency of the journal (continuous publication) and the number of issues per year.

Archive: The journal seeks the digital preservation of all its contents and the stability of its technological infrastructure.

Copyright: The journal indicates what type of relationship it establishes with its authors to publish accepted articles under a license.

Licensing: The journal uses a Creative Commons 4.0 license and declares it within its policies and instructions for authors.

 

Editorial practices

 

Publication ethics and related editorial policies: The journal declares the references of its ethics policy and has indications for a series of aspects directly related to ethics: authorship, conflicts of interest, respect for copyright, scientific integrity, corrections and retractions, among others.

Peer review: The journal has established a structured evaluation process for all manuscripts it receives, under the “double-blind” system, and describes it in a special section for this purpose.

Access: The journal is immediately open access and states this within its policies.

 

Organization

 

Editorial and management: Ciencia en Desarrollo declares, without ambiguity, which institution publishes it (the UPTC University Press). It also contains institutional information and its direct link with the university.

Scientific committee: The information on the researchers who are part of the journal's committees or who are editors is complete and transparent. Their CV can be consulted directly through their ORCID profiles.

Editorial team: The information on the journal's editorial team is complete, reliable, and updated as soon as any changes are made. Business practices

Costs for authors: The journal's business model is Diamond open access. In this sense, the process is completely free for authors and it declares this.

Other income: The journal is funded with public resources, from the UPTC University Press and the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia.

Advertising: The journal does not advertise products and services because its mission is purely academic and scientific.

Direct marketing: The journal does occasionally contact renowned researchers, guest editors, and evaluators, but to ask them to support, ad honorem, its processes for calling for special editions and evaluating manuscripts. Since there are no fees for authors and the processes are completely free, there is no commercial or monetary interest in any of the contacts it makes with academics.

 

Authorship. As far as the ICMJE is concerned, the journal assumes its concept of authorship as part of its editorial policy. Consequently, we ask authors to avoid bad practices such as “gifted co-authorship” or the inclusion or elimination of authors without proper participation or justification. The concept of authorship is the following:

 

  1. Makes substantive contributions to the conception or design of a work or to the acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data in a work.
  2. Writes a work or critically reviews it and contributes important intellectual content to it.
  3. Approves the final version of the work to be published.
  4. Is responsible for all the content of the work and is able to respond to any questions that arise about its accuracy, integrity or any part of the work. Before submitting a manuscript to the journal, authors must know and follow these criteria that define what an author is in order to avoid the inclusion of authors who are not authors or the elimination of others who are.

 

Before submitting a manuscript to the journal, authors must be familiar with and follow these criteria that define what an author is in order to avoid the inclusion of authors who are not authors or the elimination of others who are.

 

Author contributions

 

Based on the above, the contributions of each author in a manuscript can be established without ambiguity. To do this, a list of the contribution made by each author must be sent, according to the CRediT taxonomy. The CRediT taxonomy has fourteen criteria that are used to indicate the roles of the authors: Conceptualization Data curation Formal analysis Resource acquisition Research Methodology Project administration Resources Software Supervision Validation Visualization Writing (original draft) Writing (draft review and revision/correction).

 

Such contributions should be recorded in a paragraph, including the name of each author and their roles according to CRediT. Example:

 

Author contributions

 

Carlos Rodríguez: conceptualization, formal analysis, research, resources, supervision, writing (original draft), writing (review of draft and revision/correction); Sandra Pérez: data curation, formal analysis, resource acquisition, research, methodology, software, visualization, writing (original draft), writing (review of draft and revision/correction); Laura Sánchez: conceptualization, project administration, resources, writing (original draft), writing (review of draft and revision/correction).

 

Direct consultation of the CRediT taxonomy and its minorities can be done through the following link: https://credit.niso.org/

 

Funding (mandatory)

 

If the authors received funding through a research project or some type of resource to research or to write or publish the work, this must be declared.

 

Conflicts of interest (mandatory)

 

If any of the authors, in their professional practice or in their scientific or teaching work, has any type of potential conflict of interest, with repercussions on the research or on the contents that make up the manuscript, they must declare it. At this point, the authors must also complete a conflict of interest form (from the ICMJE) that the journal provides within its documentation to formalize the submission of a manuscript.

 

Ethical implications (mandatory)

 

If the research that supports the contents of the manuscript involves any type of handling of personal, private or reserved information, experimentation with animals or living beings, or if in the methodology it is necessary to show some type of ethical repercussion or risk, this must be declared. Likewise, if the research required the endorsement of an ethics committee or the use of informed consent, this must be declared; if the journal requires it, the authors will have to provide the necessary supporting documents (endorsement, consents, among others).

 

Acknowledgements (optional)

 

If authors wish to thank individuals, institutions, organizations, communities, among others, who have participated in the research or who have in some way facilitated the writing or publication of their manuscript, they may do so briefly. It is important to note that acknowledgements should only be given to third parties who have had an important role, direct or prior to the preparation of the manuscript or research. Acknowledgements of a personal, circumstantial or general nature will not be accepted or published. Finally, the journal invites all authors to read the Singapore Declaration on Research Integrity and to follow its principles on honesty, responsibility, professional courtesy, respect and good research agency, for the benefit of others. Manuscripts submitted to the journal are expected to have arisen from research processes whose managers have followed, with special care, all these principles and responsibilities associated with research integrity and scientific integrity.

 

Reports or suspicions of unethical practices

 

The journal invites its different collaborators, from their various roles in the stages of the publication process, to report or directly express their concerns or doubts regarding evidence or suspicions of bad practices in a manuscript or on the part of any of the actors involved. Likewise, if a reader suspects that they have identified a problem in a published manuscript, we also invite them to report it to the journal. Communications, reports, suspicions or requests related to ethical dilemmas or problems should be sent to the editor-in-chief of the journal, to the official email address: revista.cienciaendesarrollo@uptc.edu.co

 

Procedures or actions in response to complaints of unethical practices or suspicions

 

Once the Editorial Board of the journal receives information about an ethical dilemma or potential ethical bad practice, it will analyze the case and follow the recommendations of COPE and its flowcharts to investigate bad practices and take a decision or action against those who violate the ethical framework subscribed to by the journal: https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts/complete-set-english

 

Corrections and retractions

 

Ciencia en Desarrollo may issue corrections or retractions on manuscripts published in its miscellaneous or special issues. Corrections on published manuscripts will be made in the event that minor but important errors are identified that may cause some misunderstanding about the contents of the article, about the information of the authors or about some potential ethical risk or conflict that has not been declared.