Ethical statement and good practices
The editorial team of Cooperativismo y Desarrollo is committed to the scientific community in guaranteeing the ethics and quality of the articles published, based on the code of conduct and good practices that the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) defines for editors of scientific journals.
Cooperativismo y Desarrollo follows a rigorous control procedure of the originals received to avoid bad scientific practices and guides its users in maintaining correct publication ethics.
To this end, the international standards established by COPE are followed, subscribing to the standards for publishers established in 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity in Singapore in 2010.
In order to facilitate the decision-making process in cases where unethical behavior is detected or observed, a protocol inspired by the Publishing Ethics Resource Kit (PERK) model is followed:
- Authorship conflicts
- Plagiarism
- Duplication, concurrent publications or simultaneous submissions to several publications
- Appropriation of research results
- Fraud or research errors
- Violation of research standards
- Undisclosed conflicts of interest
- Reviewers bias
In this regard, the editorial board of Cooperativismo y Desarrollo follows the decision flows recommended by the Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics of Wiley. Evaluation tools are used to detect bad practices in order to guarantee compliance with the quality standards of the publication, and to maintain the original and unpublished character of the published results.
Cooperativismo y Desarrollo uses in its peer review process different systems of original and anti-plagiarism analysis in order to detect bad practices. In this sense, the Editorial Committee of the journal, in order to be rigorous in the detection of fraudulent actions, has defined the use of the following tools:
