Ethic Code

Publication ethics and malpractice statement

Pulso. Revista de educación's Ethics and Malpractice Statement supports the combined efforts by authors, members of the editorial board and the scientific committee, and reviewers to produce a responsible scientific publication.

Pulso. Revista de educación's code of ethics  is inspired by principles of best practice established by institutions such as the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE) (https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/principles-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing) 

Editorial Team

The Editorial Team is responsible for the content of the journal and must guarantee its quality and originality.

Editors are the first ones to evaluate the articles based only on their academic merit in order to avoid bias or discrimination.

Likewise, the Editorial Team must keep confidentiality during the edition process and has to guarantee a fair and impartial revision. The journal will make sure that reviewers are qualified to revise.

Authors will have the right to reply in the case of a negative evaluation.

The Editorial Team is committed to refrain from using any articles it may receive for personal purposes without the author’s consent.

Authors

All authors take responsibility for what they have written. Besides, they confirm that their articles are the result of an original and unprecedented research and that their data are truthful and have been obtained in a responsible way and have not been manipulated. Plagiarism, in any way, data invention or manipulation are considered serious misconducts and are considered as scientific fraud.

No part of the article will have been published before, either as an article or as a chapter. Simultaneously sending the same manuscript to several journals is considered malpractice and is ethically frowned upon.

Authors must always provide their sources. Authors commit to doing a thorough research of the most current and relevant scientific literature for their manuscripts.

Authors must accept and stick to the journal’s publication guidelines.

Authors must credit those who have significantly participated in any part of their work, be it regarding content or writing.

If an author finds a serious mistake in his/her manuscript he/she must communicate it to the journal as soon as possible in order to modify his/her manuscript, withdraw it, publish a retraction, a correction or erratum.

Authors are obliged to explicitly declare that there is no conflict of interest that may have affected the results or the interpretations of their article.

If the article has been financed by an agency or a project, authors must state it clearly.

Reviewers

Reviewers that are invited by the journal to evaluate an article commit to making a critical, honest and unbiased revision. They must be objective and give enough reasons to justify their decision.

The evaluation of the manuscripts has to be a confidential process, therefore texts must not be shared or discussed with other people that are not part of the Editorial Team.

Reviewers commit to meet and respect deadlines and will notify the Editorial Team if they cannot do so.

Reviewers must decline the offer if they think that they are not qualified for the task, or if there is conflict of interest or any reason that could affect an objective decision.

The journal asks revisers to inform about any documents that show signs of bad research practices.