Ethics of scientific publication

Policy on authorship and contribution:

Before submitting a manuscript for evaluation, the Executive Editor will review the transparency of the manuscript regarding the contribution of each person and in what capacity. For this, the authors guide provides an example on its first page, which shows how contributions should be written.

The ownership of copyright is governed by Alconpat Journal adherence to the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. For this, the authors guide contemplates the inclusion of the terms of the Creative Commons license on its cover.

 

Complaints and Appeals Policy:

The Alconpat Journal did not contemplate the handling of complaints and appeals. However, upon learning about these issues, it was decided to adopt the maximum openness through the publication in revistaalconpat.org the adherence to COPE for complaints and appeals, leaving the corresponding text as follows:

The Alconpat Journal adheres to the principles and norms of the Publications Ethics Committee (COPE) to solve any ethical problem (redundancy, duplication, presumption of plagiarism, complaints and appeals, conflicts of interest).

 

Published policy on conflicts of interest:

The Alconpat Journal did not contemplate the management of a policy on conflicts of interest. However, when learning about these issues, it was decided to adopt the maximum openness through the publication in revistaalconpat.org the attachment to COPE for conflicts of interest, leaving the corresponding text as follows:

The Alconpat Journal adheres to the principles and norms of the Publications Ethics Committee (COPE) to solve any ethical problem (redundancy, duplication, presumption of plagiarism, complaints and appeals, conflicts of interest).

 

Policy on Ethical Oversight:

The Alconpat Journal has an ethical supervision policy consisting of consenting to the disclosure of its content through massive tools, especially when it is aimed at vulnerable populations, with limited resources, or with the inability to access the internet. The presentation of the content in larger audiences such as seminars, congresses, webinars, workshops or others in this type of population is also allowed. The ethical supervision of Revista Alconpat consists of ensuring that the contents disclosed and / or presented receive the credits and the ethical treatment regarding confidential data and business practices. The foregoing implies ensuring that there is no profit other than that stated in our Creative Commons license.

 

Intellectual property policy:

Alconpat Journal has a policy on intellectual property that includes copyright, in adherence to the Creative Commons license. The journal does not handle the concept of pre-publication. As part of the policy on intellectual property, a prestigious anti-plagiarism software (Similarity Check is a service provided by Crossref and powered by iThenticate) is used, with which a net originality of 70% is expected in the published content. In addition, it is established that there is a cost exemption associated with the publication as long as the support granted by Conacyt is maintained. 

 

Post-publication discussion and correction policy:

The Alconpat Journal has opened the possibility of discussion and reply to the articles after their publication. This possibility is manifested at the bottom of the cover page of the article, where the date on which the documentation must be received and the date on which it would be published is even provided. As an example, see below the case of volume 10 number 2, May - August 2020:

“Any discussion, including the authors' reply, will be published in the first issue of the year 2021 as long as the information is received before the closing of the third issue of the year 2020.”

 

Policy on Interoperability Protocols:

The Alconpat Journal provides an OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interface that allows other portals and information services to access the metadata of the published content.

 

Specifications:

OAI-PMH Protocol Version 2.0

Dublin Core Metadata

Route for harvesters: https://revistaalconpat.org/index.php/RA/oai