Ethical principles
Ethical principles
General
MANGLAR ensures that editors, reviewers and authors rigorously follow international ethical standards during the review and publication process. We declare that our procedures follow the recommendations published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE: https://publicationethics.org/). Manuscripts received by MANGLAR will be subject to a plagiarism verification process, blind peer review, control of possible data falsification, as well as respect and guarantee of confidentiality to the individuals used in the research. Manuscripts showing evidence of inappropriate use of animals, including humans, in research will be rejected.
Each article submitted to MANGLAR must meet the following requirements:
Consent: All authors authorize the submission and possible publication of the article submitted for evaluation.
Authors' contribution: All authors declare that they have contributed significantly to the manuscript, without omission of any author, and according to the CRediT taxonomy (https://credit.niso.org/). The order of the authors is placed according to their participation in the study, from greatest to least participation.
Originality of the work: All authors declare that the submitted work is original, has not been previously published and has not been simultaneously submitted for evaluation to another journal, nor does it include original material copied from other authors without their consent. If the article contains material from other publications, consent for its reproduction must be attached.
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools: Authors who use AI tools in the writing of an article, the production of images, or in the collection and analysis of data, must state this in the Materials and Methods section (or similar section) of the article, explaining how and what tools were used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, including those parts produced by an AI tool, and are therefore responsible for any breach of publication ethics.
Citations and bibliography: All authors declare that all information included in the manuscript from previous studies has been cited and referenced correctly and in accordance with the journal's Instructions for Authors.
Suggested reviewers: The professionals suggested to review the manuscript have no professional, academic, or personal relationship with the authors.
Ethical principles of publication: Authors must have read the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and declare that these principles are met. Any work that does not comply with these recommendations and is found to be malpractice will be eliminated or retracted, depending on the state of the manuscript at the time of detecting ethical violations.
If the manuscript does not meet the indicated criteria, any author of the study may notify MANGLAR to withdraw the publication.
Specific
1. Institutional authorization
Approval from an Ethics Committee is required: (a) Research conducted on human beings; (b) Research that directly uses human biological material or data from humans susceptible to identification.
2. Informed consent
Authors must have, only in cases where necessary, informed consent signed by the participants (patients) of the study. If requested by the Editor or a reviewer, the author must provide it.
3. Incentives for participation in the study
Researchers should make every effort to avoid offering excessive or inappropriate incentives; however, financial incentives may be offered to participants for their time.
4. Deception in research
Avoid using misleading techniques or information to deliberately mislead participants.
5. Closing the research
Once the study is finished, the researcher must provide the participant with the results and conclusions of the study, taking the necessary measures to avoid misunderstandings.
6. Culture and heritage
Manuscripts approved for publication should not include images of objects that have cultural significance or are part of a country's heritage.
7. Animal research
Animal experiments are carried out basically in three fields: teaching, industry and research. The use of animals in research is a privilege that must be carefully reserved for the purpose of ensuring the relief of human beings (and animals) from illness and pain; ignoring their suffering would be irresponsible and unethical. Anyone who uses laboratory animals in their research must uphold one premise: respect for life, for the pain or suffering to which they may be subjected in the studies they conduct. Animal research should consider respect for the 4 R's (Replacement: seek alternative methods to animal involvement whenever possible; Reduction: try to reduce the number of animals to be used; Refinement: establish means that seek the integral well-being of animals; Recycling: aims to use experimental animals more than once for as many purposes). Authors must have obtained ethical and legal approval from the institution that supports the research if requested.
8. Reporting research results
Researchers should not invent data or adulterate figures. If errors are discovered, they should be publicly corrected.
9. Research Integrity
a. Misconduct: These include actions or omissions related to devising, organizing, carrying out, evaluating, or requesting research projects that deliberately or carelessly distort research results, provide misleading information about personal contribution, or violate other standards of the professional work of researchers. If misconduct is suspected, an investigation will be conducted.
b. Reports of irregularities: Reports of irregularities in research that have been observed and reported by identified persons or anonymously will be investigated only if they are accompanied by the necessary respective evidence.
c. Fabrication/falsification and manipulation of images: A modern scientific article should present the results using an optimal mix of text, tables, and graphs for easy cognitive extraction of the information, and may also contain images. Inappropriate manipulation of images creates misleading results.
d. Plagiarism: It is essential to avoid literal copying of text. It is suggested to paraphrase information taken from scientific literature, but always giving the corresponding credit to the authors of the cited publication. One form of plagiarism is using tables or data without giving credit to the author of the original publication. Also publishing images or figures without due authorization.
e. Duplicate and redundant publication of data: Researchers should not publish previously published data as originals. Authors may not submit a manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously. If the Editorial Committee becomes aware of a situation of this type, the manuscript will be retracted. Translations of already published manuscripts should not be published as an original article.
10. Editorial standards and processes
a. Authorship: As a general rule, all authors must participate in at least two of the four phases of the project: planning, data collection, interpretation of results and preparation of the manuscript. All authors of a scientific article must contribute significantly to the development of the research.
b. Authorship disputes: If the Editorial Committee suspects or receives reports of authorship problems, it will contact the corresponding author to request more information.
c. Funding: Funding sources must be mentioned and stated in the acknowledgments section.
d. Peer review: Original articles and reviews are initially evaluated according to the journal's criteria, indicated in the Instructions for Authors; after this compliance, the manuscripts are evaluated by two or more reviewers who are chosen according to their expertise in the subject of the manuscript.
e. Publication times: The average time of the editorial process, from receipt of the article to the final decision of the Editorial Committee, varies between two to four months.
f. Editors and Journal Staff as Authors: The Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, and Advisory Committee members are not involved in any decisions about their own manuscripts submitted to the journal.
g. Conflict of Interest: Editors, authors, and reviewers must disclose any conflict of interest that might affect their ability to objectively submit or review a manuscript. Conflicts of interest include financial, personal, political, or religious interests.
h. Corrections: Readers and authors must notify the journal through a Letter to the Editor if there are errors in a publication that affect the interpretation of the results. Corrections will be published, and when significant errors are found that could invalidate the work, the possibility of retracting the published manuscript will be considered.
i. Retraction of a manuscript: Retractions are made when reported errors may affect the interpretation of the data, as well as when the information presented in the work is fraudulent or falsified, the data is fictitious or when the study cannot be reproduced or in cases of serious ethical violations.
j. Withdrawal of a manuscript: The deletion, suppression or concealment of an article is only permitted when there is a case involving legal violations, defamation, or other legal limitations, as well as when there is false or inaccurate data. In such cases, a withdrawal statement will be published. Another particular case of withdrawal occurs when proven ethical violations have been committed, but the article has not yet been published; in this case, only the authors are informed of the withdrawal of their manuscript from the review processes.
11. Copyright and intellectual property
By publishing an article in this journal, the author retains his or her moral and proprietary rights without restriction.
The journal has adopted the Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) model whereby anyone is free to Share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially) and Adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially). The journal cannot revoke these freedoms as long as the following license terms are followed: Attribution (give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made). You may do so in any reasonable way, but not in any way that suggests that the journal endorses you or your use. There are no additional restrictions, i.e., you may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from making any use permitted by the license.
12. Peer Reviewers
Original articles and reviews are initially evaluated according to the journal's criteria, indicated in the Instructions for Authors; after this compliance, the manuscripts are evaluated by two or more reviewers who are chosen according to their expertise in the subject of the manuscript. The participation of the reviewers in all cases is anonymous and ad honorem.
The reviewers carry out the reviews in an objective manner, with constructive and consistent criticism that contributes to the improvement of the manuscript. Their recommendation could be: (a) publication without modifications; (b) publication, but after certain corrections and improvements; (c) rejection, duly arguing the reasons. Based on the observations made by the reviewers, the Editor will decide to publish the article, reject it or send suggestions to the author.
The reviewers may: (a) notify the Editor about the existence of possible falsifications or manipulations of the results, as well as the incursion into malpractice; (b) promptly notify the Editor if substantial parts of the work have already been published or, if they are aware of it, if they are being revised for another publication, in order to avoid any similarity of the manuscript with other published works.
Reviewers must: (a) Comply with the agreed and requested times for revisions; (b) avoid accepting manuscripts that are not within their competence, when they consider that they will not be able to do the revision in the established time or when there is some connection with the authors; (c) respect the confidentiality of the manuscript and the copyright, avoiding commenting or discussing the content of the manuscripts with other people.
