Ethical guide
Plan
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The journal applies ethics toolkit for a sucessful editorial office and respects the ethical guidelines for peer reviewers established by the Committee on publication ethics (COPE).The below commitments are inspired from this committee’s recommendations.
1. Journal commitments
Evaluation process
All is done to deal with received typescripts in a fast and efficiently way.
All publishing application is analysed by a copycat detection software. If it reveals derivatives which do not respect quotation’s rules, the proposal is rejected.
An applied article not in compliance with the journal’s field of application or against its editorial policy can be rejected by the redaction committee, without a blind peer review.
Both previous cases excepted, so as reading notes, all applied articles are anonymously reviewed by two outer reviewers minimum.
After deliberations of the redaction committee and the direction, enhanced on evaluation reports, an applied article can be accepted, accepted but with modifications requests (majors or minors), or rejected:
- if accepted but with modifications requests, the direction and the redaction committee make a final decision according to the author’s consideration of suggestions and comments of the reviewers;
- if rejection occurs, a detailed report is sent to authors. They still can ask for another evaluation. According to the redaction committee and/or direction’s statement, the contribution can be re-evaluated.
Conflicts of interest
In case of conflict of interest with one of the authors or with applied content, the concerned redaction committee’s members disqualify themselves.
Impartiality
Each applied article is impartialy considered and its merits are juged without distinction of author’s sex, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnical origin, seniority or corporate affiliation.
Confidentiality and data use
The peer reviewing process is strictly confidential. The information or correspondence about a typescript are not shared with no-one outside the process. Unpublished informations, themes or interpretations of a contribution are not used nor released before the article publication, without the author’s consent.
Editorial treatment
All accepted text (after the first application or the modification phase) is subject to an editorial work in cooperation with the author.
Erratum
If the journal finds out that one of its published article holds a relevant mistake, the authors are informed that they must quickly send corrections or proofs of the accuracy of the concerned article.
2. Experts commitments
Withdrawal
Experts let know quick the journal’s direction if they feel not qualified enough or if they don’t have time enough to evaluate the applied research.
Confidentiality and data use
The peer reviewing process is strictly confidential. The information or correspondence about a typescript are not shared with no-one outside the process. Unpublished informations, themes or interpretations of a contribution are not used nor released before the article publication, without the author’s consent.
Impartiality
Quality of the applied article is objectivvely juged respectfully to author’s intellectual independency. Reviewers clearly express their point of view, with details arguments; ad hominem critic is forbidden.
Multiple or redundant publications
Experts inform the journal’s direction of every substantive similarity between the evaluated typescript and any published document or simultaneously applied to anoter journal they know.
References
Experts inform the journal’s direction of other author’s works use without credits.
3. Authors commitments
Originality and copycat
Authors garantee that their applied article is original and does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any other person or entity.
Conflicts of interest
Authors declare to the journal’s direction any potential conflict of interest, wether professional, financial or other which might be interpreted as an influence of their process. They mention all research funds presented in the contribution.
Authors mentions
The correspondent author has to make sure that all and only authors who have made a significant contribution to the conception, elaboration and interpretation of the presented study are mentionned in the co-authors list. The correspondent author has also to make sure that all co-authors have seen and approved the final document and decided to apply it. Greetings can mention some contributors who provided substantial support for the published work.
Defamatory statements
Authors garantee that their applied article does not content any defamatory, fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statement.
Multiple or redundant publications
Authors garantee that their applied article has not yet been publishe and it is not based in whole or in part on previously published work (except for reading notes and the Exchange sections which are based only and respectively on a previous publication or the opening article of the Exchange section). They do not use their contribution to apply to several journals at the same time.
References
Authors garantee they quote in an appropriate manner all publications used in their work.
Editorial treatment
Authors allow the editorial journal team to put some possible adjustments to their articles and cooperate with them when adjustments are proposed.
Erratum
If they find out a relevant mistake or inaccurate fact after the publication, authors inform quickly the journal and cooperate to a withdrawal or a correction of the concerned article.
If the journal get in touch with them after the publication, when a relevant mistake is find out, they send quickly corrections or proofs of the accuracy of the concerned article.
Printed and digital publication
Authors allow their articles diffusion to printed and digital format, like on Cairn.info and OpenEdition Journals plateforms.