Publication ethics and malpractice statement
The Natura@economy journal publishes articles under the highest standards of quality and ethics, following the recommendations published by the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE): https://publicationethics.org/ and adheres to its principles for dealing with acts of misconduct to ensure the integrity of the investigation (COPE). The journal behaves ethically at all stages of publication and with all members of the journal, including: the author, the journal editor, the reviewer and the publisher.
Plagiarism or any other unethical behavior is strictly prohibited. During the editorial process, the Journal Natura@economía prevent the publication of plagiarism, fraud, and misconduct by using the opinion of peer reviewers and the review of texts using the Ouriginal anti-plagiarism software as well computer tools to detect it.
- Responsibilities of the editors:
- Editors are responsible for the selection of articles that will be published in the journal.
- Editors have the responsibility and authority to accept or reject an article.
- Editors should publish errata pages or make corrections when needed.
- Editors should base their decisions solely on the importance, originality, clarity, and relevance of articles to the scope of the publication.
- Editors should not reverse their decisions or override those of previous editors without serious reason.
- Editors must preserve the anonymity of reviewers (in blind peer review journals).
- Editors should ensure that all research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
- Editors should act if they suspect misconduct, whether a paper is published or unpublished, and make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem.
- Editors must not allow conflicts of interest between staff, authors, reviewers, and the editorial board.
- Editors should not change their decision after submitting a decision (especially after rejecting or accepting it) unless they have a serious reason.
- Responsibilities of the reviewers:
- Reviewers must maintain the confidentiality of the information contained in each document.
- Reviews must be carried out objectively, without personal criticism of the author. No self-knowledge of the authors should affect their comments and decisions.
- Reviewers must express their opinions clearly with supporting arguments.
- Reviewers can identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
- Reviewers must also report to the Editor any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
- Reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest.
- Responsibilities of the author:
- Authors must certify that their manuscript is an original work, has not been submitted to another journal at the same time and has not been previously published.
- Authors must participate in the peer review process and follow the comments.
- Authors are required to provide retractions or error corrections.
- All authors mentioned in the document must have contributed significantly to the research. The level of your contribution should also be defined in the "Author Contributions" section of the article.
- Authors must declare that all data in the document is real and authentic.
- Authors must notify editors of any conflict of interest.
- Authors must identify all financial support used in the creation of their manuscript.
- Authors must report any errors they discover in their published article to the Editors.
- Authors cannot withdraw their articles during the review process or after submission.
4 Conflict of interest
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work.
