Ethics Charter
- 1 The use of the masculine form to designate different functions (“expert” or “author”) is understood (...)
Evaluations are made on a double-blind basis, internally and externally, except in the case of a proposed article emanating from a member of the editorial board. In this case the two evaluations are carried out by external experts1.
The evaluation is carried out in an impartial manner, according to strictly scientific criteria, without taking into account, should these be known, considerations of gender, language, religion, nationality, institutional affiliation or any other form of bias which might prejudice the objectivity of the assessment.
The evaluation criteria are freely available on the review’s web site. The experts are required to complete an evaluation grid and provide a more detailed report, to be submitted to the review’s management board or to the person designated to the specific section concerned.
An article may be accepted without modifications, accepted subject to modifications (minor or major) or refused outright. In the case of disagreement between two experts an evaluation by a third person may be requested. The evaluation reports are conveyed in anonymous form to the authors should their text require changes for publication.
The experts are chosen on grounds of scientific competence. If, despite efforts taken to avoid any conflict of interest, one of them considers he might be in such a situation, he is required to inform the management committee of the review, who will then select another person.
The articles entrusted to the experts remain strictly confidential. In the same manner, the expertise reports are conveyed only to members of the editorial board, to the person in charge of the submission and to the authors of the text.
Authors submitting an article to the Focales review undertake not to submit the article simultaneously to another review and to present an original text. Any detected form of plagiarism will lead immediately to rejection.
If an article is accepted the review commits to publishing it within a maximum period of 18 months. The author retains the possibility of publishing his article in a collective work or in a collection of articles, but mention should be made of the first publication in the Focales review.
Each author of an article receives a contract to be signed at the end of the evaluation process and before publication.
In the case of a manifest error discovered after on-line publication, the author may request from the review’s management board a rectification and the board may likewise, in the case of an error being found a posteriori (an incorrect reference, an obvious typing error, etc.), request the author to correct the error. Such occurrences however should remain exceptional.
Notes
1 The use of the masculine form to designate different functions (“expert” or “author”) is understood here in the neutral meaning. We should note also that women are especially present on the editorial board of the review.
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