Access and reuse policy: Authors who publish in Acreditas Magazine retain the moral and patrimonial rights of their works, assigning to the magazine the right of first publication, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Authorship and contribution policy: Papers submitted to the Acreditas Journal, should be signed by all those persons who have made a substantial contribution to the manuscript, significantly in the conception, design, execution or interpretation of the study.
Authors are encouraged to use the CRediT Taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) established by CASRAI.
Digital preservation and its corresponding policy: Digital preservation is a set of processes and activities that ensure continuous and long-term access to information.
The journal Acreditas is committed to the preservation, restoration and recovery of its contents in the long term so it deposits its published content in the PKP preservation network (PKP PN). The magazine's LOCKSS publication manifesto is available here.
The preservation policy includes the assignment of DOI to each article, which guarantees permanent access to the articles, thanks to the registration, tracking and constant monitoring of metadata.
It has Keepers seal.
Handling of complaints and appeals: Acreditas will address and resolve complaints or appeals related to non-compliance with any of the practices described in the editorial process involving authors, scientific reviewers and editorial team.
Possible complaints and appeals will be dealt with by the Editorial Team, for which a pertinent evaluation of each case will be developed, based on the recommendations provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Complaints should be sent to: emoralesglez@acreditas.com and include the following information:
Name of complainant
Title of the article
Description of the complaint
Supporting documentation (if applicable)
Conflict of Interest Policy: According to COPE, conflicts of interest can arise during the research, writing, and publication processes and are influential factors that interfere with the objective integrity of research publication.
The journal encourages the disclosure of conflicts of interest that arise in the writing and/or submission of a publication proposal.
It is suggested that both authors and reviewers inform the Editorial Committee of the Journal of any possible conflict of interest that may affect the decision of acceptance or rejection of an academic and scientific communication. The Editorial Committee will take the necessary measures to guarantee impartiality and prevent conflicts of interest throughout the editorial process.
Policy on data sharing and reproducibility: Acreditas promotes and adheres to the practice of Data Sharing and the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles.
Authors are encouraged to deposit data in a research data repository prior to submitting the manuscript to the journal.
Self-Archiving: Acreditas encourages the deposit of submitted manuscripts in preprint servers and other repositories academic of both the submitted version, the accepted version and the published version, respecting the license used and the copyright.
Journal options for post-publication discussions and corrections: All discussions, comments, clarifications, major corrections and retractions will be subject to rigorous review by the Editorial Team. They may be sent via e-mail to: emoralesglez@acreditas.com
The journal adheres to the guidelines given by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).
Plagiarism detection policy: Acreditas magazine publishes original works that have not been previously submitted, nor are being submitted for consideration by other publications, in whole or in part.
Plagiarism is considered to be the appropriation of ideas or texts of others and the presentation of their work as one's own.
Self-plagiarism is the practice of reusing material already published without citing it in a new publication.
For this reason, each manuscript is submitted for review using the iThenticate program, and the text must present a percentage of similarity of no more than 20% in order to continue with the editorial process. The results of this review will be treated with strict confidentiality and the author responsible for the submission will only be informed if plagiarism is suspected. If plagiarism or self-plagiarism is confirmed, the journal will contact the author to request clarification. If the response is not satisfactory, the manuscript will be rejected and future contributions from the author will not be accepted.
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Publicity Policy: Our publicity policy ensures transparency and independence in editorial decision making. Therefore, Acreditas accepts advertising from third parties (advertisers), which may include posters or banners, badges, contextual advertising.
Decision making and editorial content will be kept separate from advertising content, without compromising the execution of good ethical practices.
Advertisements will be clearly identified as such and placed in designated areas.
Any changes to the advertising policy will be communicated in a transparent manner.