Ethics and good practices

The SEgurIdad y SAber Journal is governed by the guidelines of COPE (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices).

To publish in the journal, authors must take into account the highest standards regarding publication ethics. The editor may conduct plagiarism checks at any time after receiving the manuscript.

The corresponding author by submitting a Declaration communicates the agreement of all authors that:

*The work is original and unpublished, free of plagiarism, has not been published and is not under consideration for publication in another journal.
*All the authors agree with the publication in the SEgurIdad y SAber Journal.
*All who contributed important ideas and work have been appropriately acknowledged or included as co-authors.
*All addresses and institutional affiliations are complete and correct.
*All national laws relating to research have been complied with.
*Funding sources and conflicts of interest have been duly declared.
*Authorization is obtained from employers, persons or companies that have intellectual property or copyright, and financial sources, among others, to publish all parts of the manuscript.

A published article that is later found not to meet all of these criteria may be withdrawn or, at the sole discretion of the journal, a correction may be published.

Next, some ethical aspects of strict compliance for the Journal are presented in detail.

Authorship conflicts

The first author of the scientific article (main author) is assumed to be the person who contributed the most to the development of the research. The remaining authors should be placed in order of the importance of their contribution. To avoid the problems associated with unjustified authorship, it is requested that the number of co-authors of a manuscript be in accordance with the amount of work done. The editors may request justification of the participation of all the authors in the case of articles with numerous authors.

Multiple publication

The fragmentation of a manuscript or research into small units to produce several articles and create an image of productivity is not accepted in the Revista SEgurIdad y SAber. This unnecessary subdivision of research has the effect of scattering scientific information and making it difficult to collect later.

Declaration of conflicts of interest

The authors will be morally obliged to declare if there is any financial, personal or professional interest – for reasons other than simple interest in contributing to science – in the publication of this article. This statement does not in any way invalidate its publication, but it is an element that the reviewers deserve to know in order to make an impartial interpretation of the published article.

Reviewers must declare any possible conflict of interest related to the article or to the people involved (such as family relationships, colleagues, competitors or collaborators among potential referees or editors), regardless of whether they assume that this would not affect their decision.

Authors can notify the editor of those people they wish to exclude from the evaluation process, without the need to justify it. Such requests will be absolutely confidential and respected in all cases.

Copyright

The results published in the Revista SEgurIdad y SAber are presented under the licence Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC), which allows any reader to use free of these as long as you refer the source. An editor's commitment to the publication of a work must be respected by the journal. Once an original is accepted, the author has the right to have her work published in the shortest time possible. The main author has the right to withdraw the article from the evaluation process at any time without affecting its consideration for future publications.

Availability of data and materials

The authors must make available the precise materials, data or protocols associated with their research and offer the exposed results in a transparent way, opening up the possibilities of future uses by other researchers.

Preparation and manipulation of the figures

The images used, as well as the inclusion of tables or figures from other works, must be accompanied by the explicit permission of the copyright holder or a document that certifies that it is from a public or freely accessible source.

Even though the SEgurIdad y SAber Magazine is not a member of the Publications Ethics Committee (COPE-https://publicationethics.org/code-conduct) In all cases of misconduct or suspicion of it, action will be taken in accordance with COPE guidelines. If an editor has doubts that a submitted article describes something that could be considered misconduct in research, publication or professional behavior, the case is discussed in the Editorial Committee and the COPE guidelines are consulted. If the case cannot be resolved through discussion with the author(s), and the editor is still in doubt, they may report the case to the appropriate authorities.

Plagiarism detection

Plagiarism, in any of its manifestations, constitutes a serious lack of ethics. The journal sanctions plagiarism and fraudulent data in documents, publishing the same article in more than one journal, copying and using textual information from any document, using data, images and other resources without the authorization of all the natural or legal authors of the work, use information that has not been consulted from the original source by some of the authors of the document, modify or misrepresent the meaning and context of the information contained in other works, as well as any other inappropriate use that alters the integrity of the information.

Those works that are identified as plagiarism, or contain plagiarized or digitally manipulated content, that violates copyright or multi-authorship, will be automatically eliminated from the peer review and the proper communication will be issued to the author and the institution to which the same. belong.

SEgurIdad y SAber Journal uses all the electronic resources at its disposal to detect cases of plagiarism and copyright violations. Among the main plagiarism detection tools are Duplic Checkers, Plagium, Paper Rater, Google Scholar, Gramarly and Plagiarisma.

Each author is responsible for the submitted work being original and assumes full responsibility for the opinions he expresses. Likewise, it must guarantee that the texts are not compromised with other editorial processes or violate copyright in relation to multi-authorship. Those works that are the result of research by several specialists must show the name of all the specialists who are considered authors of the work. Otherwise, it is considered an ethical offense and proceeds according to COPE protocols. It is also considered fraud to mention people who did not participate in the investigation as the author. All the authors of a document respond in equal conditions for the information contained in it.

The research results are verifiable facts, for this reason, if there are doubts about the originality of a document, about the results it exposes or the authorship, the editorial committee can verify the information, even with the institution that sponsors the research.