Complaints and Appeals Policy

The acts that raise suspicions about unethical behavior will be verified under the following procedure: identification, investigation, infractions and sanctions.

a. Identification

Misconduct and unethical behaviors can be identified by anyone and should be brought to the attention of the editor or editorial committee at any time.

Individuals who report misconduct to the magazine must provide sufficient information and evidence to begin a formal investigation.

All reports will be taken seriously and treated in the same way, until a successful conclusion is reached.

b. Investigation

Initially, the Editor should consult and seek advice from the Editorial Committee.

All evidence will be collected and treated confidentially by the members who have to judge it. If the answer is not satisfactory, the case will be escalated to the superiors of the site where the authors work.

The Editor, after reviewing and analyzing the case, will issue a judgment that will lead to detecting infractions and establishing sanctions.

c. Offenses

Infractions are divided into minor and serious offenses as follows:

Minor offenses: misconduct not determined by an interest in harming the journal or third parties.

Serious offenses: engaging in inappropriate and unethical conduct in order to deliberately harm the magazine and third parties. They include plagiarism, conflict of interest knowing that it exists, defamation of people or institutions, alteration of information (method, analysis, results) and any other that violates intellectual property and ethics rules internationally approved.

e. Sanctions

For minor offenses

Call for attention to the authors about their unethical behavior which would lead to serious penalties, in case of not providing a satisfactory explanation or recidivism.

For serious offenses

The journal will publicly notify inappropriate behavior in detail through an editorial note.• The Editor will inform the project's sponsoring entities about the serious offense detected in the source article of the investigation.

The lifetime inability to re-accept an item from the person who committed the offense.

Inform the competent authorities for a judicial sanction.

e. created in 2010, Corrections and retractions

RIDI, in the cases deemed necessary, will publish corrections and retractions of the published manuscripts.

The corrections correspond to the publication of a note in which the involuntary errors made in the article are pointed out and the respective correction is presented.

In the case of retractions, access to the article will be restricted and a note will be published explaining the reasons for the retraction. These reasons may be, among others, plagiarism, data presentation, methods, analysis or manipulated results which invalidate the contributions of the article.