Ethical Principles

ETHICS OF PUBLICATIONS AND DECLARATION OF MALA PRAXIS

Scientia Agropecuaria ensures that editors, reviewers and authors rigorously follow international ethical standards during the review and publication process. We declare that our procedures follow the recommendations published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Manuscripts received in SCIENTIA AGROPECUARIA will be subject to a process of verification of plagiarism, double-blind peer review, control of falsification of data used (data obtained, tables, graphics, images) and respect and guarantee of secrecy to the individuals used. in the investigation, rejecting in this sense, manuscripts where there is evidence of undue use of animals, including man, in research.

Each manuscript sent to SCIENTIA AGROPECUARIA must meet the following requirements: 

CONSENT: all authors give their consent for the submission and publication of the article submitted for evaluation.

CONTRIBUTION OF THE AUTHORS: all the authors contributed significantly to the manuscript, without omission of any author. The order of the authors is placed according to their participation in the study, from higher to lower participation.

ORIGINALITY OF THE WORK: the submitted work is original, has not been previously published and has not been sent simultaneously for evaluation in another journal, nor is original material copied from other authors without their consent included. If the article contains material from other publications, you must attach the consent for its reproduction.

CITATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: all the information included in the manuscript from previous studies has been cited and referenced correctly and in accordance with the Instructions for Authors of the journal. 

SUGGESTED REVIEWERS:  the suggested professionals to review the manuscript have no labor, academic, or personal relationship with the authors.

ETHICAL PRINCIPLES OF PUBLICATION: the authors must have read the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics and declare that these principles are fulfilled. Any work that does not conform to these recommendations and that is proven malpractice, will be eliminated or retracted, depending on the state in which the manuscript is at the time of detecting ethical errors.

If the manuscript does not align with the indicated criteria, any author may notify SCIENTIA AGROPECUARIA to withdraw the publication.

ETHICAL PRINCIPLES OF THE SCIENTIA AGROPECUARIA

1. Institutional authorization

The approval of an Ethics Committee is required: (a) Research conducted on human beings; (b) Research that directly uses human biological material or human data susceptible of identification.

2. Informed consent

The authors must have, only in the cases that were necessary, with the informed consent signed by the participants (patients) of the study. In case the Editor or a reviewer requests it, the author must provide it.

3. Incentives for participation in the study

Researchers must make the necessary efforts to avoid offering excessive or inadequate incentives; however, economic incentives can be made to the participants for the time spent.

4. Deceit in the publication

Avoid the use of deceptive techniques or information in order to deliberately mislead participants.

5. Closure of Research

Once the study is finished, the researcher must offer the participant the results and conclusions of the study, taking the necessary measures to avoid misunderstandings.

6. Ethical principles

a) Culture and legacy: In manuscripts approved for publication, images of objects that have a cultural significance or are part of a country's legacy should not be included..

b) Animal research: Animal experiments are carried out basically in three fields: teaching, industry and research. The use of animals in research is a privilege that must be carefully reserved for the purpose of ensuring the relief of the human being (and the animals) from disease and pain; ignoring the suffering of each other would be irresponsible and unethical. Anyone who uses laboratory animals should keep a premise: respect for life, pain or suffering to which they can be subjected in the studies conducted. Research with animals should consider respecting the 4 Rs (Replacement: look as much as possible for alternative methods to the involvement of animals) Reduction: try to reduce the number of animals to be used Refinement: establish means that seek the well-being of the animals animals; Recycling - aims to use experimental animals more than once for other purposes). The authors must have the ethical and legal approval obtained by the institution that endorses the investigation in the case requested.

7. Report of the results of the investigations

Researchers should not invent data, nor adulterate the figures. If errors are discovered, they must be corrected publicly. 

8. Integrity of the Investigation

a) Misconduct: includes actions or omissions related to devising, organizing, carrying out, evaluating or requesting research projects that, deliberately or carelessly, distort the results of the investigation, provide misleading information about the personal contribution or violate other standards of the professional work of researchers. If misconduct is suspected, an investigation will be conducted.

b) Complaints of irregularities: the reports of irregularities in the research study that have been observed and reported by identified persons or anonymously will be investigated, only if they are accompanied by the necessary evidence.

c) Manufacturing / falsification and manipulation of images: A modern scientific article must present the results by means of an optimal mixture of text, tables and graphs for an easy cognitive extraction of the information, likewise they can contain images. Inappropriate image manipulation creates deceptive results.

d) Plagiarism: It is essential to avoid the literal copy of text, it is suggested to paraphrase the information brought from the scientific literature, but always giving the corresponding credit to the authors of the aforementioned publication. One form of plagiarism is to use tables or data, without giving credit to the author of the original publication. Also publish images or figures without proper authorization.

e) Duplicate and redundant publication of data: authors must not publish previously published data as originals. Authors may not submit a manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously. If the Editorial Committee notices a situation of this type, the manuscript will be retracted. Translations of previously published manuscripts should not be published as an original article.

9. Rules and editorial processes

a) Authorship: As a general rule, all authors must participate in at least two of the four phases of the project: planning, obtaining data, interpreting the results and preparing the manuscript. All the authors of a scientific article must contribute significantly to the development of the research.

b) Authorship disputes: if the Editorial Board suspects or receives complaints of authorship problems, it will contact the corresponding author to request more information.

c) Financing: Financing sources must be mentioned, and must be included in the acknowledgments section.

d) Peer Review: The original manuscripts, complete or short, and reviews, are initially evaluated according to the criteria of the journal Scientia Agropecuaria, indicated in the Instructions for Authors; After this compliance, the manuscripts will be evaluated by two or more reviewers who are chosen according to their expertise in the subject of the manuscript.

e) Times of publication: The average time of the editorial process, from the reception of the article to the final decision of the Editorial Committee, varies between two to four months.

f) The editors and the staff of the Journal as authors: The Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors and the members of the Consultative Committee are not involved in any decision on the manuscripts themselves submitted to the journal Scientia Agropecuaria.

g) Conflict of interest: editors, authors and reviewers must disclose any conflict of interest that may affect their ability to present or revise a manuscript objectively. Conflicts of interest include financial, personal, political or religious interests.

h) Corrections: readers and authors must notify Scientia Agropecuaria through a Letter to the Editor, if there are errors in a publication that affect the interpretation of the results. Corrections will be published and, when important errors are found that could invalidate the work, the possibility of retracting the published manuscript will be considered.

i) Retraction of a manuscript: the retractions are made when the reported errors can affect the interpretation of the data, as well as when the information presented by the work is fraudulent or falsified, the data are fictitious or when the study can not be reproduced or in cases of serious ethical errors.

j) Removal of a manuscript: the deletion, suppression or concealment of an article is only allowed when there is a case involving legal infractions, defamation, or other limitations of a legal nature, as well as when there is false or inaccurate information. In such cases, a withdrawal statement will be published. Another particular case of withdrawal occurs when proven ethical offenses have been committed, but the article has still been published, in this case, only the authors of the withdrawal of their manuscript are informed of the review processes. 

 

10. Copyright and intellectual property

The author must sign a document transferring the patrimonial rights to Scientia Agropecuaria and send it along with the submission of his manuscript. If the manuscript is not accepted for publication, this assignments is without effect and the manuscript released for publication, if the author so decides, in another publication medium.

Moral rights are always maintained with the author without restrictions.

11. Peer Review

The original manuscripts, complete or short, and reviews, are initially evaluated according to the criteria of the journal Scientia Agropecuaria, indicated in the Instructions for Authors; After this compliance, the manuscripts will be evaluated by two or more reviewers who are chosen according to their expertise in the subject of the manuscript. The participation of the reviewers in all cases is anonymous and ad honorem. Editorials and letters to the editor are evaluated only by an Editor, except in the cases that an evaluation by an external reviewer is required.

The reviewers perform the reviews objectively, with constructive and consistent criticism that contributes to the improvement of the manuscript. Its recommendation could be: (a) the publication without modifications; (b) the publication, but after certain corrections and improvements; (c) the rejection, duly arguing the reasons. Depending on the observations made by the reviewers, the Editor will decide the publication of the article, its rejection or the sending of suggestions to the author.

The reviewers can: (a) notify the Editor about the existence of possible falsifications or manipulations of the results, as well as the incursion into malpractice; (b) timely warn the Editor if substantial parts of the work have already been published or, if known, if they are subject to revision for another publication, in order to avoid any similarity of the manuscript with other published works.

The reviewers must: (a) Comply with agreed and requested times for revisions; (b) avoid accepting manuscripts that are not of its competence, when it considers that it will not be able to do the review in the established time or when there is a link with the authors; (c) respect the confidentiality of the manuscript and the right of authorship, avoiding commenting or discussing the content of the manuscripts with other people.