Anti-plagiarism policies and ethical practices

The Revista Científica Sinapsis adheres to the ethical standards and publication codes of conduct, established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

The editorial committee of the Revista Científica Sinapsis is committed to high standards of ethics and good practices in the dissemination and transfer of scientific articles, with the aim of guaranteeing the firmness and scientific quality of the different works. The driving forces of the editorial board are to ensure the quality of the material that is published, to respect freedom of expression, to maintain the scholarly integrity of its content, and to issue corrections, clarifications, and apologies when necessary.

Through the journal's website (https://revistas.itsup.edu.ec/index.php/sinapsis/index), authors have access to information on the guidelines for authors and on the peer review process; documents that are regularly updated. The editors will not modify their decision on the acceptance of manuscripts, unless irregularities or extraordinary situations are detected. The Revista Científica Sinapsis magazine makes available to the evaluators a guide about what is expected of them. It is evident that the identity of the evaluators is protected at all times, guaranteeing the anonymity of the peers.

As in most scientific journals, the Revista Científica Sinapsis will guarantee that the articles are published based on their quality and suitability, and not with a view to economic or political gain. In this sense, the fact that the journal is not governed by economic interests, and defends the ideal of free access to universal and free knowledge, facilitates said independence.

Sinapsis is a publication committed to guaranteeing the quality of its content and the proper exercise of ethical practices by each of its actors. This statement, based on the Guidelines on Good Practices for Publications developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), raises a set of ethical aspects focused on each of the important elements and roles involved in the editorial process.

Ethical principles

The Revista Científica Sinapsis adheres to internationally established ethical principles for conducting research, for this reason it accepts the Declaration of Helsinki and the guidelines of The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS). Research carried out with human beings must submit the approval document for conducting the study before its start by an ethics committee. The ethics committee that approves the development of the research must be duly authorized by local legislation in the country where the research was conducted. In the case of research studies that are considered exempt from approval by an ethics committee, the exemption letter must be submitted.

When the research includes vulnerable people such as children, pregnant women, university students, indigenous communities, among others, it will be necessary to add the consent or informed assent used during the research. This document should have been part of the requirements for approval of the research by the ethics committee, therefore, the final approved version is requested. In addition, the research must respect current legislation on research in this population regarding their participation and taking biological samples.

In the case of observational or intervention studies carried out in Ecuador, consider the ethical aspects for research in indigenous peoples and nationalities and vulnerable populations described in ministerial agreement 015 and its reform in 038 of the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador. For clinical trials where new medicines and/or medical devices are tested, review ministerial agreement 075 of the National Agency for Regulation, Control and Sanitary Surveillance Ecuador. Similar studies from other countries must obey local legislation and, when submitting your manuscripts, the electronic address of the legislation in force in that country is requested for compliance verification.

Code of ethics

Científica Sinapsis journal encourages those involved in any part of the editorial process (authors, journal team, peer reviewers, external collaborators, etc.) to comply with ethical standards throughout the publication process. Therefore, below, we detail the internal code of ethics that we promote.

Code of Ethics and Publication Sinapsis Scientific Journal.

Introduction: This document aims to establish the guidelines and procedures for an adequate publication process in the Revista Sinapsis. Transparent practices and adherence to editorial ethics are essential for the academic development of the scientific community. Being of vital importance, it is essential that these practices are well known by all parties involved in the publication process of the journal.

This will lead to a more reliable process and will define a clear direction in the magazine's actions.

Objective: To ensure adherence to the ethics of the editorial practices of Revista Sinapsis and mark a clear and transparent process for all parties.

Important Concepts: Throughout the publication process of the Sinapsis Magazine, there will be different actors that will intervene, which are:

Author: Person who, after a research process, produces an academic paper that seeks to provide new knowledge to the scientific community.

Article: Document resulting from a previous investigation that is intended to be published in the academic media.

Editor: Responsible for supervising the publication process of the different articles of the magazine and that it adheres to ethical and moral standards.

Evaluator: Expert person in a specific area in charge of evaluating an article that seeks to be published, according to its content, structure, discoveries, etc.

Editorial Committee: Group of professionals in the relevant areas that provide both academic and technical support to the editorial process.

Duties and responsibilities: Editors:

  • Provide in a timely manner the indications and parameters for the publication of an article.
  • Verify the originality of the articles, verifying that there are no signs of plagiarism on the part of the authors.
  • Efficiently and smoothly coordinate the process of selecting and submitting the article for review. Ensuring that the anonymity of both authors and reviewers is maintained at all times.
  • Maintain adequate control of the process, duly informing all parties of the deadlines, necessary documents, letters of authorship and other aspects that may be required.
  • Notify all authors of the modifications, suggestions and/or corrections proposed by the evaluators, as well as ensure their correct inclusion in a new version of the document.
  • Supervise compliance with the responsibilities of both authors and reviewers.
  • Ensure the continuous visibility of the magazine, seeking indexing and keeping the information corresponding to the Sinapsis Magazine updated, both on its website and in its different social networks.

Author(s):

  • Fully guarantee the authorship of the article, avoiding plagiarism at all costs through correct citation.
  • Know and respect the Code of Ethics and Publication of the Sinapsis Magazine.
  • Provide the editors of the journal with all the information that is necessary for the process. Respect the anonymity of the evaluators, understanding this aspect as the fundamental basis of the ethical process to which Revista Sinapsis adheres.
  • Be willing to include the modifications and/or corrections proposed by the reviewer, adapting them in the best possible way, or failing that, reliably justifying their non-inclusion.
  • Respect the deadlines and provisions made by the editors of the magazine regarding review, publication and other issues.

Evaluators:

  • Objective and balanced evaluation of the corresponding article.
  • Reject the evaluation process of an article if they do not feel qualified to do it effectively.
  • Respect the anonymity of the author of the article.
  • Inform and reject the evaluation in case of detecting any anomalous situation such as conflict of interest, probability of kinship or other type of relationship that could jeopardize the objectivity of the review.
  • Only inform the editor about the modifications, corrections and/or adaptations that it deems pertinent.
  • Not disseminate in any way or form the content submitted for review.

Editorial committee:

  • Ensure the correct application of editorial rules and statutes throughout the publication processes.
  • Propose both reviewers and researchers and/or articles for the Sinapsis Magazine.
  • Contribute to giving the journal greater visibility in academic spaces.
  • Safeguard the quality and ethics of the magazine in all its aspects.

Inappropriate situations

As a means to guarantee transparency and the correct application of the Code of Ethics and Publication of the Sinapsis Magazine, the following situations will be inadmissible:

Plagiarism: Not correctly attributing the authorship of the information used within the article. It may be an omission, misquote and/or attribution of said information.

Falsification and Fabrication of Data: Refers to the intentional manipulation of the factors under study, either in advance, during or after the scientific model used for the article.

Multiple presentations: It is said that the results of the same study are presented in a segmented way, in order to accumulate several articles instead of one.

Simultaneous publications: It is the action of submitting the same article to the publication process in different journals at the same time; or failing that, elements that are very similar to each other.

Conflict of Interest: It is the situation in which due to different relationships (family, institutional, economic, etc.) there is an ethical and moral conflict where the veracity and fidelity of the information contained in the study is put at risk. Incurring in any of the situations mentioned above will warrant due notification to the Editorial Committee and the subsequent withdrawal of the article, regardless of whether it is already published or not. The perpetrator must be informed in writing or by email, and in case the situation involves other actors, they must also be duly informed.

Bibliographic references

COPE (2019). Principles of Transparency and Good Practices in Academic Publications.

Anti Plagiarism Policies

The submission of an article implies that the work described has not been previously published (except in the form of an abstract in a conference or in the framework of a published conference or academic thesis) that it is not being evaluated for publication in any other medium, that its publication is authorized by all the authors and expressly or tacitly by the responsible authorities of the institution in which the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published in any other medium with the same format, in English nor in any other language, not even in electronic format. To verify its originality, the manuscript may be examined through the Crossref Similarity Check service.

  1. About the Articles

1.1. The data declared in the articles must be real and authentic. All must include citations and references to the respective sources.

1.2. Plagiarism and fraudulent data in articles or other publications in any form is prohibited. It is considered an unfair practice to submit an article to more than one journal for evaluation. It is considered an unethical practice to publish the same article in more than one journal.

  1. About the Author

2.1 Presenting other authors' ideas as your own is an unacceptable practice.

2.2. The authors must report any funding source that has allowed the study to be carried out, as well as any other commitment that could influence the interpretation of the results.

- All authors are obliged to provide the necessary corrections to errors.

  1. About the plagiarism detection process.

During the editing and review processes, the reviewers and editors check and verify that the article is based on an original idea, and for this they start from the principle that it reports a low percentage of copies, which should not exceed international standards. established, which is why they will submit each article to tests, using online systems such as Plagiarism and iThenticate, in such a way that the amount of copied content does not exceed 20%, taking into account the citations and other elements that could be copied from one file to another.

It should be noted that any editor or reviewer is obliged to report evidence of copies, theft of ideas or similar situations, and the journal's management is obliged to discard the material for publication.

For this, different special services are used, such as the Turnitin system, which analyzes the texts in search of grammatical and orthotypographic coincidences, which guarantees that the works are unpublished and ensures compliance with the editorial quality standards that guarantee their own scientific production.

Likewise, Sinapsis magazine makes available to authors and reviewers, as well as to the scientific community, a set of specific tools for detecting plagiarism: Grammarly, Plagium, WriteCheck, PaperRater, Plagarisma.net, Viper Plagarism Scanner or CrossCheck. It is a set of free access and paid interfaces that monitor the originality of any manuscript and allow plagiarism to be controlled.