Declaration of ethics and good practices

The journal Da Investigação às Práticas: Estudos de Natureza Educacional is a peer-reviewed journal, which publishes articles on diverse topics such as educational contexts (formal and non-formal), educational actors, teaching and learning processes, child development models and processes, organization of educational systems, policies, values, and practices.

The journal Da Investigação às Práticas: Estudos de Natureza Educacional reserves the right to only publish texts that respect fundamental Human Rights and human integrity and dignity.

In the journal Da Investigação às Práticas: Estudos de Natureza Educacional, the principles of the declaration of ethics and good practices are defended in accordance with the Code of Conduct and Standards of Good Practices for Journal Editors of the Committee on Ethics in Publication – COPE (available at http://publicationethics.org/). The entire editorial team, authors, reviewers are advised to know and disseminate that Code.

 

Main responsibilities and duties of the Editorial Committee

To contribute to the constant improvement of the Journal;

To ensure the quality of the published documents;

To defend freedom of expression;

To decide which articles should be published, based on the journal's rules (https://ojs.eselx.ipl.pt/index.php/invep/about/submissions#authorGuidelines) and on the legal requirements regarding defamation, copyright violations and plagiarism;

To guide authors and reviewers in the fulfillment of their duties;

To inform new members of the editorial staff about their functions and current practices;

To evaluate articles solely on the basis of their scientific and intellectual merit;

To ensure that the scientific refereeing process of articles is anonymous (double-blind peer review), impartial and rigorous and that all information regarding authors and articles remains confidential;

To ensure the protection of the identity of authors and evaluators during the evaluation process;

To guarantee a database of suitable reviewers in the various areas, and keep it updated;

To ensure an adequate selection of reviewers, according to the needs of the articles;

To ensure that unpublished materials are not used in research carried out by members of the Editorial or Scientific Committee or in any other way, without the written consent of the authors;

To answer to any complaints about a submitted or published article;

In case of suspected misconduct, follow the COPE flowcharts, available at http://publicationethics.org/files/Full%20set%20of%20flowcharts.pdf ;

To publish rectifications, explanations, retractions and apologies whenever needed.

 

Good practices to be observed by the Editorial Committee

To inquire authors, readers and scientific committee about initiatives and actions to improve the journal;

To support initiatives to inform and raise awareness of the community, regarding the journal's ethical rules.

To promote community’s responsible behavior, and discourage inappropriate conduct;

To ensure that all articles have been reviewed by qualified and adequate reviewers;

To address authors' requests to exclude someone from reviewing submitted articles, provided that they are substantiated;

To warn the reviewers to the eventual identification of redundant publications and the existence of plagiarism, acting to guarantee a high level of quality.

Responsibilities and duties of the Journal Scientific Committee

To ensure the refereeing of article proposals as long as they fall within the respective areas of expertise. If needed, the revision should be carried out by other reviewers;

To contact potential evaluators for the scientific refereeing process;

To disseminate calls for contributions;

To contribute to the Journal dissemination;

To participate in meetings called upon by the Journal Editorial Coordination;

 

Responsibilities and duties of the reviewers

To contribute to improve submitted manuscript;

Timely inform the Editorial Board in case of not having the needed qualifications to review the submitted manuscript or in case of impossibility of timely revision;

To maintain the strictly confidentiality of all works received for revision, and not shar or discuss them with others, unless authorized by the Editorial Committee;

Not use information obtained through peer review;

Present your assessment objectively and adequately;

Identify relevant published works that have not been cited;

Not accept the evaluation in case of recognizing the authors’ identity, through some information indicated in the text itself or by another way.

Not accept the revision in case of conflict of interest, due to competition, collaboration or contacts to the authors.

 

Responsibilities and Duties of Authors

To know the rules of conduct available at https://publicationethics.org/ ;

To mention as co-authors all the people who significantly contributed to the article;

To list other contributions to the research in the acknowledgments or contributions;

To ensure that all co-authorship situations are included in the manuscript and that the final version of the document is accepted by all authors;

To ensure that the publication proposal is original, not being allowed its simultaneous presentation in other national or international journals.

To ensure that all citations are properly identified and referenced, in accordance with APA norms;

To identify all the financial contributions, or other support, for the research work;

Not simultaneously submit the article to other journals.

Immediately notify the Editorial Committee, in case of errors or serious inaccuracies identification. If serious errors or plagiarism are identified, articles will be withdrawn from publication. Before this removal, the Editorial Coordination will contact the authors in order to obtain justifications. In case of removal, the article will be removed from the online databases.

To contact the Editorial Committee, by email, in case of needed clarification on an editorial decision or in case of any complaints.

Responsibilities of the Publishing Institution ( ESELx )

To guarantee the autonomy of the Journal Editorial Committee;

To protect and defend the journal's intellectual property, copyright, ethics, good practices and transparency;

Collaborate with the Editorial Committee in resolving issues of misconduct or fraud.