Ethics Policy

ETHICAL STANDARDS OF PUBLICATION

The journal Nuevo Derecho expresses its commitment to ethics in the editorial processes. Therefore, the journal Nuevo Derecho follows the guidelines that commit actions to ensure the ethical behavior of authors, editors, reviewers and members of the Editorial Board.

Therefore, the journal Nuevo Derecho guarantees compliance with the Principles of Transparency and Best Practices in Academic Publishing issued by the Committee in Publication Ethics (COPE). Likewise, it follows the guidelines of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).

 

JOURNAL POLICIES ON AUTHORSHIP AND CONTRIBUTION

Declaration and submission

Declaration and Submission Articles submitted for publication must be original texts. At the time of submitting the manuscript through the OJS platform, the corresponding author must attach a document containing complete information on the authors and a copyright transfer letter explicitly declaring the originality and authorship of the text, stating that the article has not been previously published and is not under simultaneous review by any other journal or means of dissemination. The information provided about the authors must match that recorded in their profiles on academic platforms such as ORCID, CvLAC or other equivalent databases, which must be kept up to date.
By signing the copyright transfer letter, the authors grant the journal Nuevo Derecho the right to have their article and associated materials reproduced, published, edited, communicated and publicly transmitted in any form or medium, as well as to have them distributed in the number of copies required and made publicly available, including to national and international audiences through electronic means, for exclusively scientific, cultural and outreach purposes and on a non-profit basis.
It should be borne in mind that the study from which the manuscript is derived must have obtained informed consent from all participants and the approval of the institutional ethics committee. This must be explicitly indicated in the methodology section, and any instruments, data or tests provided or designed by other authors must be properly referenced.
The document containing the authors’ information and the copyright transfer letter, in which the originality and authorship of the text are declared, must be submitted in accordance with the format established by the journal. All authors must have read and agreed with the content of this document, and the letter must be signed by all of them.

 

 Authorship

The journal Nuevo Derecho, based on the four criteria assumed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), assumes the following definition of the author of a scientific article:

  1. making substantial contributions to the conception or design of the article or the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data for the work.
  2. The drafting of the article or the critical review of its content.
  3. Final approval of the version for publication.
  4. Being responsible for all aspects of the work, ensuring that all questions regarding the accuracy or completeness of the text are investigated and confirmed.

Only those who meet these 4 criteria can appear as authors of a scientific article. This implies that all co-authors have a shared responsibility for the entire work as a whole, relying on the trust in the integrity of the contributions of their collaborators. Contributors to the article who do not meet these 4 criteria cannot appear as authors, but must be acknowledged, indicating at the bottom of the page their names and the respective contribution made for the purposes of the research or the article.

It is the collective responsibility of the authors, and not of the journal, to determine that all persons named as authors meet the four criteria. The same authors of the article in mutual co-responsibility decide the order of their appearance in the article according to the importance of their respective contributions. Together with the article, an article submission form is sent to the journal, where the authors (in case there is more than one), present their data in the established order, for which they are responsible.

If the authors request the deletion or addition of an author after submission or publication of the manuscript, the journal will request a signed statement of agreement for the requested change from all authors mentioned and from the author to be deleted or added.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism constitutes a serious breach of academic ethics and may take many forms, ranging from the omission of bibliographic references to the partial or total reproduction of ideas, texts, data, graphics, or materials belonging to others, whether published or unpublished, without proper acknowledgment of their authorship.
To prevent such practices, all sources must be cited in accordance with APA standards, as set out in the author guidelines. When extensive excerpts, illustrations, tables, instruments, or data produced by third parties are used, it is necessary to obtain the corresponding authorization and explicitly mention the source in the manuscript.
The journal Nuevo Derecho uses the iThenticate platform, or any equivalent tool, as a system for detecting similarity and textual matches. The result of this analysis may be shared with the authors at the editor’s discretion. However, when the level of similarity is considered excessive or when possible misconduct in the handling of sources is detected, the decision to reject the manuscript may be adopted directly as an editorial determination.

 

POST-PUBLICATION DISCUSSIONS, COMPLAINTS, APPEALS AND CORRECTIONS.

In the event of a complaint or appeal regarding any editorial decision or procedure, the applicant may contact nuevo.derecho@iue.edu.co by e-mail, which will be processed and reviewed in order to address their requests.

Retraction

Retractions are made for voluntary or involuntary errors by the authors; however, whatever the cause, corrective actions are the same for both. Authors have the right to manifest and spontaneous retraction of the partial or total content of their manuscripts at any time. The retraction communication must be sufficiently explicit. It does not exclude authors from disciplinary or legal actions arising from errors in the articles.

 

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Authors should avoid any action corresponding to conflict of interest in the publication and in the information provided.

Likewise, although the evaluation processes of the articles are carried out through the double-blind peer review methodology, in case of having knowledge of a conflict of interest about the source that was sent for publication, the editor or manager of the journal should be informed.

 

JOURNAL POLICIES ON DATA EXCHANGE AND REPRODUCIBILITY

Names and e-mail addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes stated by this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other person.

 

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

The authors must declare that the article is an original work, that it has not been totally or partially published in any printed or electronic media, that it has not been simultaneously submitted to another publication and that it is not currently under evaluation in another publication. Furthermore, I (we) hereby state that the statements made in this paper are the sole responsibility of the authors. 

All data and references to materials already published are duly identified with their respective credit and included in the bibliographical notes and in the citations that stand out as such and, in the cases that require it, I have the due authorizations of those who own the respective rights; in case of any litigation or claim related to intellectual property rights, we are responsible for exonerating Nuevo Derecho from liability.

If the article is approved for publication, the authors transfer the reproduction rights to the journal Nuevo Derecho to publish it, distribute electronic copies and include them in indexing services, directories or national and international databases in Open Access, under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA) by which the authors retain their copyright and allow others to copy and distribute their work, as long as they recognize the corresponding authorship and the work is not used for commercial purposes.

Therefore, Nuevo Derecho does not retain the rights of reproduction or copy (copyright), so the authors may have the final versions, to disseminate them in institutional repositories, personal blogs or any other electronic or printed media, with the sole condition of mentioning the original source of publication, in this case Nuevo Derecho.

 

DIGITAL PRESERVATION

The journal Nuevo Derecho has the Open Journal System (OJS) platform through which it publishes its issues under the existence of information security protocols. Each of the articles published in the journal Nuevo Derecho has the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) that allows locating the published texts while ensuring their online access.

The journal Nuevo Derecho has a backup in the IUE Institutional Repository in order to preserve its publications.