ETHICAL CODE

 

Paideutika refers to the Ethical Code for publications provided by COPE: Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

 

Duties of the Editorship

 

Decisions about publishing

The Editorship is responsible for the decision to publish or not the proposed manuscripts, also consulting, for this purpose, the Editorial Board, the Reviewers and the International Advisory Board.

 

Correctness

The Editorship and the Editorial Board, with the possible advice of the International Advisory Board, examine the contributions received in substance and form and decide on the possible publication only on the basis of the intellectual contents, consistency and scientific accuracy, congruence with the aims of the Journal, without any discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, citizenship, political orientation.

The proposed contributions that meet the above requirements and that comply with the “editorial guidelines” available on the website are submitted to a double blind peer review process.

 

Confidentiality

Information regarding the Authors and the contents of the proposed contributions are used only for the purpose of evaluation (limited to contents) and publication.

Editorship, Editorial Board and International Advisory Board (when involved) commit not to disclose information related to the proposed manuscripts to third parties, except to the Reviewers and the Publisher.

 

Disclosure and conflict of interests

The contents of the proposed and unpublished manuscripts remain confidential and cannot be used in other researches unless the Author provides written consent.

 

Duties of the Reviewers

 

Contribution to editorial decisions

Reviewers contribute to the editorial decisions and help the Author to improve the manuscript.

Reviewers are required to evaluate contributions with scientific commitment and impartiality.

 

Impartiality

Reviewers are required to express their opinion clearly and in a well-argued manner.

 

Timeliness

The Reviewer is required to inform the Journal promptly in the event he/she does not have the necessary expertise to evaluate the proposed manuscript, if he/she discovers a potential conflict of interest (relationships of cooperation or competition, research or institutional nature) and in case he/she is not able to comply with the proposed time-frame.

Reviewers are required to notify any possible similarities or overlaps among contributions of which they are aware.

 

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

The Reviewer is required not to use the unpublished contents of a manuscript submitted for evaluation in his/her own researches, without the written consent of the Author.

The Reviewer who feels a potential conflict of interests is required not to accept the review.

 

 

Duties of the Authors

 

Originality and plagiarism

Authors are required to propose contributions that are original and complete with all references used, including quotations, bibliographical sources and any other materials useful for the elaboration of the paper. Quotations that are not reported and paraphrases of texts by other Authors represent an ethically incorrect behavior and are unacceptable.

 

Multiple, repetitive or concomitant publications

The Author commit not to propose the same contribution or contributions that describe the same research to several Journals simultaneously, for this is an ethically incorrect behavior.

 

Sources indication

The Author must always provide the manuscript with the correct indication of the sources and of the contributions mentioned.

 

Authorship of the work

Any coauthors, collaborators, research or project financing bodies must be conveniently informed by the author and reported within the contribution.

 

Disclosure and conflict of interests

All Authors must declare that there are no conflict of interests that may have affected the results achieved or the interpretations proposed in the manuscript. Authors are required to report the possible financing bodies of the research and/or project from which the proposed manuscripts derive.

 

Errors in the manuscripts published

In case the Author notices some relevant errors or inaccuracies, he/she is required to inform the Journal promptly, reporting the information and corrections that will be conveniently published.

 

Paideutika does not submit to peer-review process only the Editorial, The Sections “Today, a philosopher” and “Archive of memory”, the Reviews, since they are very short contributions, of descriptive/illustrative nature.

The books to be reviewed are selected by the Editorial Board. The books published by the members of the Editorship and of the Editorial Board are not reviewed by Paideutika.