Editorial Policy
The publication of an article in a scientific journal with a double-blind review system is a very relevant task for disseminating knowledge and contributes to the evolution of the academic and scientific communities. The rigor of the publication depends on the quality of the evaluations of the works that have been considered as potential to be published. Therefore, ethical behavior is expected by all parties involved in the process: the authors, the editors and the reviewers.
The duties of authors, editors and reviewers have been made explicit in accordance with a code of ethics, which can be consulted and which all parties have accepted. In this respect, this journal adheres to COPE principles.
As well as in the DOAJ's Principles of Transparency and Good Practice in Academic Publishing.
Transparency
Declaration of competing interest
All authors must declare any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately affect their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, honoraria, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors should complete the declaration of competing interest statement at the moment of submission of the research.
Editors and reviewers must also declare any conflicting interests and may be excluded from the peer review process if there is a competing interest.
What constitutes a conflict of interest?
Conflicts of interest can be financial or non-financial. A conflict of interest exists when the authors' interpretation of the data or the presentation of the information may be influenced by, or may be perceived to be influenced by, their personal or financial relationship with other persons or organizations. Authors must disclose any financial competitive interest, but also any non-financial competitive interest that may cause them embarrassment if made public after publication of the manuscript.
Competitive financial interests
Financial conflicts of interest include (but are not limited to):
-Receive refunds, fees, funding or salary from an organization that may somehow gain or lose financially with the publication of the manuscript, either now or in the future.
- Owning shares or participations in an organization that may somehow gain or lose financially with the publication of the manuscript, either now or in the future.
- Possess or apply for patents related to the content of the manuscript.
- Receive reimbursements, fees, funding or salary from an organization that owns or has applied for patents related to the content of the manuscript.
Non-financial conflicts of interest
They include (but are not limited to) political, personal, religious, ideological, academic and intellectual conflicts of interest.
Commercial organizations
Companies or authors who work on industry-sponsored publications, such as freelance writers, contract research organizations, and communications companies, must declare these as conflicts of interest when submitting.
Informed consent
When publishing identifiable images of research participants, authors must include a statement attesting that they have obtained informed consent for the publication of the images. If the participant is deceased, the consent of the participant's closest family members must be sought. All reasonable steps must be taken to protect the anonymity of the participant. Black bars over eyes are not an acceptable means of anonymity. In certain cases, the journal may insist on obtaining evidence of the authors' informed consent. Images without the appropriate consent will be removed from the post.
Publication of data sets
For data sets containing research participant data, authors have an ethical and legal responsibility to respect the privacy rights of participants and protect their identity. Ideally, authors should obtain informed consent for publication of the participant dataset at the time of study recruitment. If this is not possible, the authors must demonstrate that the publication of such data does not compromise anonymity or confidentiality or violate local data protection laws, in order for the data set to be considered for publication. Authors should consider whether the dataset contains direct or indirect identifiers and consult their ethics committee or other appropriate body before submitting if there is a possibility that participants are not completely anonymous. Authors must indicate in their manuscript at the time of submission if informed consent was obtained for the publication of the participant's data. If informed consent was not obtained, the authors should indicate the reason and which body was consulted in preparing the data set.
MALPRACTICE
Duplicate publication
Articles must be original and not published or submitted for publication elsewhere. This rule also applies to posts in other languages. ESIC Market allows and encourages pre-publication on recognized community preprint servers for other scientists to review before formal submission to a journal. Details of the preprint server in question and any accession numbers should be included in the cover letter accompanying the manuscript submission. This policy does not extend to preprints available to the media or advertised outside of the scientific community prior to or during the submission and consideration process.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is when an author tries to pass off someone else's work as their own. Duplicate publication, sometimes called self-plagiarism, occurs when an author reuses substantial parts of their own published work without providing the appropriate references. This can range from getting an identical article published in multiple journals where the authors add small amounts of new data to a previous article.
It can be said that the plagiarism clearly occurred when large chunks of text were cut and pasted. Minor plagiarism without dishonest intention is relatively common, for example, when an author reuses parts of an introduction to a previous article. The editors of ESIC Market judge any case they are aware of (either by their own knowledge and reading of the literature, or when the reviewers alert them) on its own merits.
If a case of plagiarism comes to light after the publication of an article, ESIC Market will carry out a preliminary investigation, using the guidelines of the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE). If plagiarism is proven, the journal will contact the institution to which the author belongs and funding agencies, as appropriate. The document containing the plagiarism can also be formally withdrawn or subject to correction.
Manufacture and / or falsification of data
Manufacturing is the practice of inventing data or results and recording and / or reporting them in the research register. Counterfeiting is the practice of altering research data with the intention of giving a false impression.
This includes, but is not limited to, manipulating images, removing outliers or "bad" results, or changing, adding, or omitting data points.
The falsification and fabrication of data call into question the integrity and credibility of the data and, as such, are among the most serious problems in scientific ethics.
Some image manipulation is allowed to improve readability. Proper technical manipulation includes adjusting the contrast and / or brightness or color balance if applied to the entire digital image (not parts of the image). The author must notify the Editor, at the time of submission, any technical manipulation. Improper technical manipulation refers to darkening, enhancing, eliminating and / or introducing new elements in an image. See Image Integrity and Standards below for more details.
Recycling of texts
Authors should note that reproducing text from their own past publications is a recycling of text (also known as self-plagiarism) and is in some cases considered unacceptable. When overlapping of text with previous publications by the authors themselves is necessary or unavoidable, duplication should always be reported transparently and should be properly attributed and comply with copyright requirements. If a manuscript contains text that has been published elsewhere, authors must notify the Editor at the time of submission.
MODIFICATIONS, RETRACTIONS AND DELETIONS
The journal ESIC Market is committed to maintaining the integrity of the academic record. Therefore, the articles that have been published will be preserved unaltered as far as possible. However, circumstances may arise in which an article is published that must subsequently be modified, retracted or deleted.
In this sense, the policies of the journal's Editorial Board are specified in the following points:
Expressions of concern
The journal management may publish an expression of concern if it believes that readers should be informed of the potentially misleading content of an article. The management, aware of the repercussions that such act could have on the reputation of its authors, will only publish such expression after consulting an independent expert committee that renders a judgment on the matter.
Errata and corrections
Authors who find misprints or honest errors, once the article is published, must inform the journal about them. Errata that do not affect the understanding of the text (typographical or formatting errors) may be rejected in order to maintain the integrity of the published works. When errors affect the visibility, possibilities of citation or correct understanding of the article, a warning of the error will be published together with the metadata of the published article and a note of the error together with the file with the content of the error, and a link will be created between both.
Withdrawal of an article
Authors can ask the journal to withdraw their work before publication. To this end, they must send a written request that includes a reasoned justification for such request and, in the case of co-authorship, it must be signed by all interested parties.
Retraction of an article
An article will be retracted in the event that:
- It would have been previously published in another journal or publication medium.
- Contains false claims of authorship, fraudulent use of data or multiple submission.
- Include libelous or gratuitous comments that damage the personal or professional honor of third parties.
- Contains conclusions that have been previously published and there are no cross references to them.
- Incur in plagiarism or inappropriate authorship.
- Skip a significant conflict of interest during the posting process.
- There is a dispute about its authorship.
The decision to withdraw or delete a work will be made by the journal's management team, after consulting, if necessary, the editorial committee and under the guidelines of the COPE.
Retractions of published articles will be made by posting a retraction notice, linked to the published article and without altering the original article in any way other than to add a prominent link to the note. In this way, the original article remains in the public domain and the retraction notice will be indexed.
The retraction note will include the title of the work, its authors and a brief description of the reason for the withdrawal. In the PDF version of the article, a watermark will be placed on all its pages, indicating that it is retracted; the html or xml version, if it exists, will be deleted.
There will be no partial retractions. Any retraction is of the entire work.
Deleting an article
An article will only be removed from the database when it infringes the legal rights of others or is the subject of a court order. In this circumstance, although the metadata will be preserved, the text will be replaced by a notice indicating that the article has been withdrawn for legal reasons.
APPEALS AND COMPLAINTS
Appeal against a rejection
If you wish to ask the Editor or the Editorial Committee to reconsider the rejection of a manuscript, you should, in the first instance, contact the Editor of the journal. These are considered appeals that, by policy, should take second place after normal workload. In practice, this means that appeal decisions usually take several weeks. Only one appeal is allowed for each manuscript. Final decisions on appeals will be made by the member of the Editorial Committee handling the article or the editor.
In general, an appeal against a decision to reject a manuscript will only be considered if:
- The authors can demonstrate that a reviewer or the editors have made an error that determined the final decision during the review,
or
- if important additional data can be provided,
or
- whether a convincing case of process bias can be demonstrated.
Authors wishing to appeal an editorial decision should send a formal appeal letter to the journal by contacting the editorial office. Please include the tracking number of the manuscript in the subject line of the email and in the appeal letter.
If the appeals are successful, the authors will receive instructions on how to proceed. If an appeal deserves further consideration, the Editor can submit the authors' response and the revised article for peer review.
Complaints
Complaints about our processes or about the ethics of the publication will be dealt with in the first instance by the Editor in charge of the journal.
For complaints about processes
As well as the review time, the Editor will review and respond to the concerns of the complainant. This feedback will be provided to relevant stakeholders to guide improvements in processes and procedures.
PUBLICITY
ESIC Market does not publish advertisements nor does it carry out marketing prospecting.