Code of ethics and good practices

Functions and responsibilities of the editorial committee

1. Promote the presentation of papers for publication in the journal among the national and international academic community.
2. Suggest academic guidelines for the editorial policy of the journal.
3. Support in the selection of reviewers for the works received, as well as deliberate on the best reviewer options in necessary cases.
4. Decide on the relevance of publication of the materials received, based on expert opinions.
5. Approve the proposed content for each issue of the journal.
6. Review and evaluate each issue published.
7. Collaborate with the corresponding instances to maintain the periodicity established for the publication.

Roles and responsibilities of the editor

1. Coordinate the actions leading to the fulfillment of the journal's objectives.
2. Aim for a high academic level in the content that is published.
3. Receive papers proposed for publication and request opinions.
4. Monitor compliance with the recommendations of the reviewers.
5. Inform the authors of the stage of the editorial process in which the submitted text is.
6. Inform the Editorial Committee about the arbitration process of all the materials received, taking care of confidentiality.
7. Propose to the Editorial Committee the content of each issue of the journal, based on the texts that are corrected and approved at the moment.
8. Plan and coordinate the editorial production process of the magazine.
9. Supervise the technical processing of materials approved by the Editorial Committee, once they have met the established academic requirements.
10. Monitor the style correction and technical quality of the journal.
11. Collaborate to maintain the periodicity established for the publication of the magazine and so that the dissemination and distribution of each issue begins during the first month of the corresponding period.

Responsibilities of authors

• Redundant or duplicate posting

1. Submission of a text implies that the work has not been previously published in the form in which it is submitted to RCRI (no exceptions). If the article is accepted, the authors undertake to take care that all dissemination after publication refers to the RCRI as the space where it was published for the first time, and care will be taken that the citation adequately refers to the RCRI and DOI data. that would have been assigned.

• Financing and declaration of possible conflict of interest

1. Authors must communicate any commercial link, material or financial support received during the research, at the time of writing the article or its publication, or any potential economic interest in relation to the subject of your article and that could give rise to a conflict of interest. If there is no funding source, the writing must include the section that states “The authors did not receive any sponsorship to carry out this study-article”. Authors who do not have any conflict of interest related to the subject of the work must also declare that "There is no type of interest related to the subject of the work". This information will be disclosed at the end of each collaboration, in a visible place.

• Getting permissions

1. Authors who reproduce previously published material (text, tables or figures) in their article will be directly responsible for obtaining the appropriate permissions to be reproduced in the journal. The authors must have obtained written authorization from the publisher that has published the material and send a copy of it to the journal. If authors have any questions about how to proceed, RCRI Editorial Coordination can provide support.

• Declaration of originality

1. Authors declare that the content of the manuscript is original and that it has not been previously published, submitted or submitted for consideration in any other publication format either in its entirety or any of its parts. Failure to do so constitutes a serious breach of scientific ethics.

Responsibilities of adjudicators

1. Will accept the review of texts that fit their area of ​​expertise, in order to make a proper evaluation.
2. It will declare from the beginning of the process if there is a conflict of interest. If you suspect the identity of the author(s) you should notify the journal if this knowledge poses a potential conflict of interest.
3. You will immediately reject the review if you are unable to deliver it within the agreed time.
4. You will issue your evaluation based on the originality, the contribution of the article to the theme, the methodology used, the relevance and timeliness of the bibliography used; the style, coherence and quality in the structure and writing of the text.
5. You will inform the journal, immediately, if during the evaluation you find or discover that you do not have the necessary experience to evaluate all aspects of the text.</li >
6. Your criticism will be objective, specific and constructive.
7. It will clearly define the approval, rejection or conditioning of the text.
8. It will issue its evaluation within the agreed period.
9. You will respect confidentiality during and after the evaluation process.
10. Will not use content from the reviewed or under review text.
11. You will not involve other people in the requested review.
12. Notify the journal if it detects similarity of the text with another that it has reviewed or if it identifies any type of plagiarism.
13. It is not allowed to transfer the responsibility of making an opinion to any other person, assistant or collaborator.