Declaração sobre Ética e Más Práticas de Publicação

PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT
To ensure honesty and academic integrity, the Brazilian Journal of Public Policy follows the Code of Conduct and Guidelines of best practices for Editors prepared by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE 2011). The commitment to ensure good ethical and deontological practices must be assumed by all the editorial staff, authors and reviewers.

Therefore, according to the recommendations established by the Committee on Publication Ethics, each of the parties involved in the evaluation process and publication of the proposed articles should, at least, commit to the following:

Editors duties:

• Be responsible for the content of the journal as a whole;
• Strive to meet the interests of readers, authors and members of the Editorial Board, as well as keep them informed about the objectives and editorial policy of the journal;
• Evaluate the proposed articles solely on their academic merits, disconsider the nature of the authors, their institution and their race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship or political philosophy.
• Do not use unpublished information for their own research without the express consent of the author;
• Ensure the existence of a fair scientific process of evaluation, impartial and timely, as well as transparency in Editing and publication of the manuscripts;
• Identify and report cases of possible plagiarism or duplicate publication
• Ensure the confidentiality of the manuscripts;
•Constantly improve the journal;

Authors duties:

• Submit articles with an objective discussion, resulting from an important research work. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Any form of plagiarism, fraudulent statements or knowingly inaccurate data are unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
• Do not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal;
• Ensure that the submitted work is original and has not been published elsewhere, in any language, and that the authors have used the work and / or words of others, citing appropriately.
• Follow the laws and conventions of copyright. Material protected by copyright (eg, tables, figures or extensive quotes) should be reproduced only with proper acknowledgment and permission.
• In case of joint authorship, it should be guaranteed the consensus in approving the final version of the manuscript for evaluation or publication;
• When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his own published work, it is his obligation to immediately notify the Editorial staff of the journal and work with them to retract or correct the article.

Duties of Reviewers:

• Assist the editor in making editorial decisions;
• Ensure confidentiality during the peer review process;
• Demonstrate the existence of conflict of interest or impossibility in evaluation;
• Call the editor's attention to any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any published article which the reviewer has personal knowledge.
• Prepare reviews without personal criticism to the author. Reviewers must clearly express their perspectives with arguments.
• Do not use for their own benefit the ideas obtained through the evaluation process;
• The recommendation to accept or reject an article should be based on its importance, originality and clarity, as well as the validity of the study and its integration within the scope of the journal;
• The review should be objective and recommendations should be based on solid arguments for the authors to improve the text.
• Recommend relevant publications when they are not mentioned;
• When the manuscript does not fit in the reviewer’ research area or when it is known that the deadline will not be met, he/she shall inform the editors;
• Respect deadlines.

For more information see the document bellow:

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). (2011, March 7). Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. Retrieved from:

https://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf