Ethical code

RCCI is committed to meeting and maintaining standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We are in agreement with industry associations, such as the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE) and Publishing Ethics Elsevier Resource Kit (PERK), which set standards and provide best practice guidelines to meet these requirements.

 

Policy on authorship and contributions

In RCCI, the order of appearance of the authors and the affiliation of the article will be respected, since it is assumed that they have previously agreed to that order and that they understand that they will be responsible as co-authors for the integrity of the information postulated and the criteria expressed.

The journal, as a measure to avoid the exchange of citations and the attribution of authorship that does not correspond, has decided to include in its template for articles the Contributions of the authors section, according to the Taxonomy of CRedit, therefore, at the end of the bibliography, all the contributions made by each author, both to the research and to the writing of the article, must be exposed, respecting the proposed structure. In the case of articles by a single author, it is invalid, since it is understood that all the related points correspond to the same author.

 

Complaints and Appeals Policy

Complaints from authors will be received as long as they are well-founded, which will be addressed as far as possible following the guidelines and diagrams recommended by COPE, as well as the internal regulations of the Journal. In no case will the complaint resolution process involve revealing the identity of reviewers.

Any claim about an evaluation process will be attended as long as the author or author identifies possible errors in the review carried out. At no time will the aptitude of the reviewer be questioned. Complaints will be directed to the editor, with the respective argumentation and evidence to consider the case. If necessary, the support of the Editorial Committee or one of its members who is an expert on the subject of the article in question will be requested. A response to the claim will be given within a period of up to three months.

If a complaint of plagiarism is received after the publication of an article in RCCI, and this is verified by the Editorial Board of the Journal, that manuscript will be removed from the web page of the published issue and from all repositories and databases. data in which the aforementioned plagiarized text is recorded.

 

Journal policy on conflicts of interest

Both the authors and the reviewers and the technical editorial staff of the journal must state if there is any type of conflict of interest of any kind that may affect the performance of the publication, for example, conditions of personal order, employment relationship, financing or support with resources, etc.

In the case of the reviewers, they must notify the journal management if they find any impediment that directly affects the ethical conduct to be practiced, such as that the anonymized article was not properly sent or that data is described within the publication that could give to understand whose/who are the signatories of this.

 

Policy on data sharing and reproducibility

As part of our commitment to contribute to an increasingly open and free we urge our authors to deposit complementary materials or at least the research data underlying the publications in open access institutional or thematic repositories federated in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

 

Ethical Oversight Policy

Formed by 5 members of its Scientific Committee and renewed every 4 calendar years (since 2010), the Ethics Committee will ensure that positions are brought closer between authors and reviewers in the event of discrepancies, in its capacity as commissioner of the Editor.

The authors can refer to it by email to his address: editor@revistaccinformacion.net, they will be answered within a maximum period of 30 days from the receipt of the email.

When an irregularity is detected or there are doubts about a proposal, it will act ex officio after its discovery, in order to clarify the situation, applying a corresponding ethical code taking as the British organization COPE (Committee On publication Ethics, or Committee for Ethics in Publications), available on its website: publicationethics.org

Their decisions will be final.

 

Intellectual Property Policy

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication of the work concurrently licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License which allows others to share the work as long as both the authorship of the work and the initial publication in this journal are acknowledged.

Once the article has been published, either in its final version or in the anticipated publication version, the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the journal may be carried out (for example, publishing it in an institutional repository or in a book), with the acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors will be allowed to publish their work in institutional repositories or on their own website once it has been approved for publication, since it can generate productive exchanges, as well as a previous and greater citation of the published work.

 

Policy for post-post discussions and corrections

It is the editorial policy of the journal to consider the refutations that are made of the published works and, where appropriate, publish them, after peer review, provided that they are well founded and motivated, and provide explicit evidence of the error existing in the original article. The review of these rebuttals will be carried out by the same team of reviewers that carried out the evaluation of the original article.

Complaints, disagreements and other issues related to published contributions should be sent to the Main Editor through the official mail of the journal (editor@revistaccinformacion.net).

Here is a summary of these for editors, authors, and reviewers:

 

Responsibilities of the Editor and the Editorial Board

• Ensure the confidentiality of the authors' data in the review process.

• Ensure the custody of the texts not accepted and specify the manner of their destruction.

• Define and explain the criteria for acceptance of articles ­for review.

• Avoid favorable treatment to the detriment of other authors.

• Have no conflict of interest in relation to the texts presented.

• Do not make any use of the texts or the data presented in them, beyond those of being published.

• Establish clear and objective review criteria to avoid reviewer subjectivity.

• Establish clear deadlines to respond to the authors on the acceptance or non-acceptance of the text.

• Review suspected incidents of plagiarism and resolve any conflict of interest.

• Evaluate manuscripts solely for their intellectual content, regardless of the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, nationality, or ­political philosophy.

• Respect for time: the editors are ultimately responsible for compliance with the time limits for reviews and the publication of accepted papers, to ensure rapid dissemination of their results. They irrefutably commit to comply with the published times (maximum 30 days in the estimate/rejection from the receipt of the manuscript in the Review Platform) and maximum 100 days from the start ­of the scientific review process by experts). Also, the works will not remain accepted without being published in infinite waiting lists beyond the right time for their publication in the next issue. For this reason, job boards on the waiting list will be avoided at RCCI.

• Do not publish works that have not been approved by peer review designated for this purpose in order to maintain a quality criteria required in Journals of high scientific prestige­. Thus the author will always know that the fact of publishing clearly supports his research career.

 

Authors Responsibilities

• Originality: Ensure the originality of the works and that they have not already been published in another medium.

• Veracity: Provide truthful data and show that they have been collected in a technically correct way.

• Plagiarism or self-plagiarism: Do not plagiarize all or part of other works already published.

• Authorship: Confirm that the authorship of the text really belongs to the people who sign it. The condition of author implies active participation in the realization of the source work of the article presented, in the writing of the text and in the revisions of the same.

• Conflict of Interest: Declare any business association that may present a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article.

• Sources: Indicate the sources of information used and differentiate those that have been used directly from those that have been used indirectly. The authors are responsible for obtaining the appropriate permissions to partially reproduce material (text, tables or figures) from other publications and for correctly citing their source.

• If the article is accepted, the authors must agree to make the modifications within the stipulated period.

• In the cases that are considered appropriate, present the documentation that ensures that minimum ethical criteria have been followed in the research, such as informed consent.

• Access and retention: If the editors deem it appropriate, the authors of the articles should also make available the sources or data on which the research is based, which can be retained for a reasonable period of time after publication and possibly made accessible.

• Errors in published articles: When an author identifies an important error or inaccuracy in his article, he must immediately inform the editors of the Journal and provide them with all the necessary information to list the pertinent corrections at the bottom of the article.

• Responsibility: All authors accept responsibility for what has been written. The authors also undertake to carry out a review of the most current and relevant scientific literature on the topic analyzed, bearing in mind the different currents of knowledge in a plural way.

• As it is a publication governed by Creative Commons Attribution/NonCommercial 4.0 International, the author assigns the copyright and publication rights to the Journal through said public intellectual property system of free access, by signing the text of the letter of originality and assignment of rights that is found on its website.

• Gender equality: Authors must make one of inclusive language and must abide by the recommendations that may arise during the editorial process of the manuscript to ensure that the text presents a non-sexist language.

 

Reviewers Responsibilities:

• Make a fair and objective review of the articles.

• Respect for time: The reviewer who does not feel competent in the subject to be reviewed or who cannot finish the evaluation in the scheduled time will immediately notify the editors. The reviewers undertake to evaluate the works in the shortest possible time to respect the delivery deadlines, since in «RCCI» the custody limits of the pending manuscripts are finite and inflexible out of respect for the authors and their works.

• Clearly explain the arguments for your assessment.

• Do not accept articles for review in which there may be a conflict of interest that limits their objectivity (for example, being an interested party in the research presented in the article, maintaining a personal or family relationship with the authors of the text or be in a situation of dispute against the same or the person or group that presents it).

• Maintain the confidentiality of the information and data of the evaluated articles.

• Text display: The reviewers undertake to accurately indicate the bibliographical references of fundamental works possibly forgotten by the author. The reviewer must also inform the editors of any similarities or overlaps of the manuscript with other published works.

• Evaluate manuscripts solely for their intellectual content, regardless of the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, nationality, or political philosophy.