Ethical Commitment

Ethical Commitment

 

The Brazilian Journal of Political Public and International (RPPI) follows the ethical publication standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), whose principles are described here. Practices of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, falsification and data fabrication are not allowed. These scientific misconducts are defined by the Brazilian Academy of Sciences as follows, respectively, on this website:

  1. Plagiarism involving the appropriation of ideas and the work of others without due credit;
  2. Self-plagiarism or republication of scientific results already disclosed, as if they were new, without informing previous publication;
  3. Forgery or manipulation of data, procedures and results;
  4. Manufacture of results and records as if they were real;

The editorial board commits itself to impersonality, transparency and confidentiality in evaluations, preserving the right of reviewers, authors and institutions involved in the editorial process. Crossref Similarity Check program is used in the evaluation process. The journal is also signatory of the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). 

 

Erratum and Disclaimer Policy 

The COPE (here) and Council of Science Editors (here) guidelines are followed for the correction of articles. Based on these sources, there are three methods for correcting scientific literature:

  1. Erratum - Refers to amendments or changes to parts of the article. Corrections may be in article title, author names, typographical or diagrammatic errors;
  2. Retraction - Refers to partial corrections of the article due to methodological errors, incorrect data analysis, scientific misconduct or non-reproducible research. There is also the possibility of removing the entire article from the journal page;
  3. Concern Expression - Refers to an editor posting a notice when there is concern about the reliability of an article, but the information is insufficient to warrant retraction.

The request and the writing of the correction must be made by the author responsible for the article. If there is disagreement among the authors about what is being corrected, the periodical editor becomes responsible for writing the correction. An erratum, retraction or concern expression will be published as soon as possible, and the article remains on the journal page with specific indication of correction. 

 

Allegations of Misconduct

Allegations of misconduct by authors, reviewers and editors are analyzed by the editorial board, which has a 30-day deadline to respond to the allegation. Included in this field are suspicions of plagiarism, fabrication and falsification of data, divergence between published texts and journal standards, improper self-citation, citation exchange, and improper practices that may impact editorial metrics. If the misconduct is identified, the article object of the complaint will be excluded from the journal, followed by the respective justifications