Diretrizes éticas
Ethical Guidelines
The Revista Ibero-americana de Ciência da Informação (RICI) follows the principles and standards recommended by COPE (Publications Ethics Committee), an international reference organization in integrity and ethics in scientific publications. Thus, the entire editorial and post-publication process follow the COPE recommendations [available at: https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines].
The editors and the editorial board are responsible for taking care of the journal's ethical issues. Any complaint or suspicion of misconduct by authors, reviewers or even the editorial team can be sent to the journal's official email [rici@unb.br], which will be analyzed by the editors, based on the COPE Guides.
In cases involving suspicions of misconduct related to the submission, there will be a check by the editors with a view to ensuring the high standard of scientific and ethical rigor and all doubts are clarified or informed to the readers.
In the event of a finding of misconduct on the part of the authors, the article will be removed from the evaluation process, and RICI, at the decision of the editorial board, refuse to receive future submissions from the authors. If proven misconduct by a member of the editorial team or ad doc reviewer, he will be removed from his duties with the RICI.
The evaluation process is based on the merit of the work, according to the guidelines informed on the page “About the journal” [URL: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/RICI/abouthttps://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/RICI/about] and includes checking the similarity of all submissions.
The evaluation must not be influenced, positively or negatively, for personal reasons or those not followed by the RICI's guidelines. Opinions are not accepted that are not sufficiently justified or that contain offenses or inappropriate attitudes.
The evaluator is expected to remain anonymous in relation to the evaluation, maintain the confidentiality of the reviewed articles. In case of any conflict of interest, the evaluator must inform the editors before acceptance or during the evaluation process in the form provided in the journal's system. When faced with any irregularity in relation to the article under analysis, the evaluator must inform the editor.
The authors are fully responsible for the content. Regarding doubts related to the inclusion of co-authors, order of names, among others, it is recommended to consult the Guide for authors of COPE and CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy, URL: https://casrai.org/credit/).
On the other hand, the author(s) must declare the existence of conflict of interests (financial, professional or of any other substantive nature that may be interpreted as an influential factor in the results of the research or in the interpretation of these results), when applicable, using the corresponding field of the journal system during the submission process.
Likewise, the author(s) must disclose all sources of financial support for the project.
Finally, the author(s) must immediately notify the journal's Editorial Team if they discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work, in addition to collaborating with Editorial Team to retract or correct the article.
Plagiarism and Similarity
Integrity and Plagiarism Prevention
Aiming to value academic integrity and prevent plagiarism in publications hosted on the UnB Periodicals Portal, the Revista Ibero-americana de Ciência da Informação (RICI), adopts the text similarity identification service using free detection software as a basis. of plagiarism, namely: Plagiarisma [https://plagiarisma.net/pt/] and Plagius [https://www.plagius.com/br].
Retraction
The Ibero-American Journal of Information Science (RICI) defends the integrity of the literature and publishes Errata, Expressions of Concerns or Retraction Notices depending on the situation and in accordance with the Retraction Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The retraction flow follows the Retraction Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which are available in the document: COPE Retraction Guidelines [https://publicationethics.org/node/19896].
