Declaration of ethics and good practices

The editorial board of the Latin American Journal of the Pope is committed to high standards of ethics and good practices in the dissemination and transfer of knowledge to ensure rigour and scientific quality.
Use as a reference the Code of Conduct for the editors of scientific journals, established by the Publications Ethics Committee (COPE, https://publicationethics.org/core-practices) in which it is located:

1. Duties and general responsibilities of the Principal Editor, Associate Editors and editorial committee
Editors are responsible for everything published in the journal, so:

- They strive to meet the needs of readers and authors;
- They constantly improve the journal;
- They ensure the quality of the material they publish;
- Promote freedom of expression;
- Maintain the integrity of the academic record;
- They prevent commercial needs from compromising intellectual standards;
- They are always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.

2. Relations with readers
Readers should be informed about who has funded the research and the role of funders in research.

3. Relations with authors
The Latin American Journal of the Pope undertakes to guarantee the quality of the published material, reporting on the objectives and standards of the magazine. The editors' decisions to accept or reject an article for publication are based solely on the quality of the work, the originality and relevance of the study with respect to the journal's editorial line.
The journal includes a description of the processes used in the peer evaluation of each work received. It has a author's guide presenting the information. This guide is regularly updated and contains a link to the code of ethics. Authors have the right to appeal editorial decisions.
Publishers will not change their decision to accept submissions unless irregularities or extraordinary situations are detected. Any changes in the members of the editorial team do not affect decisions already taken, except in special cases where serious circumstances converge.

4. Relations with reviewers
The Latin American Journal of the Pope offers evaluators guidance on what is expected of them. The identity of the evaluators is protected at all times, ensuring their anonymity.

5. The peer review process
The Latin American Journal of the Pope assures that the material sent for publication will be considered privileged and confidential material while evaluating (double blind).

The manuscripts sent that conform to the editorial line of the Latin American Journal of the Pope and meet the minimum indispensable conditions of a well-supported academic work and with coherent editorial, will be sent to the editor, who together with the editor will ensure that the manuscripts meet the minimum requirements mentioned. The document with the format suggestions suggested by the editor will be returned to the contact author and will have a period of 5 days to correct and adapt their manuscript to the rules of the journal. Once the manuscript corrected by the authors has been sent to the editor. For review or arbitration, the manuscript will be sent to two evaluators or arbitrators, with the double-blind system: the evaluator will not be aware of the identity of the author and vice versa.

The evaluators will be renowned researchers or academics whose lines of work coincide with the topic addressed in the article.

The evaluation criteria suggested to the evaluators shall be as follows:

- A. Attention to its content. Consider the originality, rigour, interest and topicality of approaches, as well as their relevance to the field of research.

b. Attention to the overall structure of the work. That the exhibition be made with a coherent logic and achieves its analytical cohesion.

c. Attention to the drafting. Exhibitive quality.

 

The final evaluation may be:

I. Conditioned for publication (Publishable with substantive corrections). In this case, the author will be told what profound modifications he or she should make to the work in order to publish it. The author will have a period of 15 days to submit the corrected version of his text, which will be reviewed by two readers of the Editorial Board to verify the extent to which the recommendations of the evaluators were met.

II. Approved, with minor changes (Publishable with revision). In this case, the author will be informed if the work needs minor modifications, which will be accurately indicated and will be in the author ' s view whether or not he incorporates them. The author shall have a period of 5 days from the date of return to submit the corrected version of his text. Once these changes have been made, the text will be likely to be published.

III. Approved (Publishable without objection). The text will automatically proceed to the editing stage, provided that the second opinion is also published without objection.

IV. Not approved (it is not publicable). Here the evaluator will clearly state the reasons why he considers that the text cannot be published.

 

The resolution of the evaluators is unappealable.

If the evaluation process cannot be initiated because the number of evaluators necessary under the conditions laid down by the regulation, the author or authors shall be informed of the rejection of the manuscript for that reason.

6. Management of Complaints
The Pope's Latin American Journal is committed to responding quickly to complaints received and ensuring that dissatisfied applicants can handle all complaints. In any case, if the parties concerned do not comply with their claims, they are considered to have the right to submit their protests to other instances.

7. Promoting academic integrity
Publishers should ensure that the research material they publish meets internationally accepted ethical guidelines.

8. Protection of individual data
The Latin American Journal of the Pope guarantees the confidentiality of individual information, i.e. articles containing interviews of, for example teachers and/or students as collaborators or participants of the study presented, it should not be disclosed to third parties.

9. Monitoring of poor practices
The Latin American Journal of the Pope assumes its obligation to act accordingly in case of suspicion of malpractice or bad behavior. This obligation extends to both published and unpublished documents. Editors will not only reject manuscripts that raise doubts about possible misconduct, but what they will be ethically obliged to report suspected cases of misconduct. The magazine makes every reasonable effort to ensure that the work subject to evaluation is rigorous and ethically appropriate. Among them, the revision of the text created to detect and prevent plagiarism regardless of the language used (through URKUND).

10. Ensuring the integrity of the academic record
Publishers have a duty to act if they suspect misconduct on the part of the perpetrators. This duty extends to both published and unpublished articles.

Publishers should not simply reject documents that raise concerns about possible misconduct (fabrication, forgery or plagiarism when proposing, conducting or reviewing investigations, or reporting investigative results), but are ethically obliged to pursue alleged cases. To do this, publishers must first seek a response or clarification from the authors. If you are not satisfied with the answer, you should ask relevant employers or any appropriate agency (perhaps a regulatory body) to investigate the fact.

11. Relationships between authors and editors of the journal
The relationship between the editors, the editorial committee and authors will be subject to the principle of editorial independence. The Latin American Journal of the Pope always ensures that the articles are published according to their quality and suitability for readers, and not for an economic or political benefit. In this sense, the information transmitted by the magazine is not governed by economic interests but by the ideal of defending free access to knowledge, universal and free.

12. Conflict of interest.
Conflicts of interest may arise from financial and non-financial interests, in other words, there may be conflicts due to the use of time, membership of certain associations, prejudices, family or friendly relations, among others that could incorrectly influence the duties and responsibilities of the authors, reviewers and/or the editorial team itself.
The Latin American Journal of the Pope will establish the mechanisms for the regulation, prevention, detection, investigation and punishment necessary to prevent or resolve possible conflicts of interest between authors, reviewers and/or the editorial team itself.

13. Complaints / allegations
Any author, reader, reviewer or editor can submit their complaints to the steering committee of the Latin American Association of the Pope to the following e-mail address editor@papaslatinas.org.