Authorship and ethics policy

Integrity of the author, authorship, plagiarism, fight against plagiarism and bad behavior

Author's integrity. The Amazon Biodiversity Journal (RBA) adheres to the Responsible research publication: international standards for authors [Kleinert S & Wager E (2011) Responsible research publication: international standards for authors. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010. Chapter 51 in: Mayer T & Steneck N (eds) Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment. Imperial College Press / World Scientific Publishing, Singapore (pp 317-28). (ISBN 978-981-4340-97-7)]

In summary:

  • The research that gives rise to the work must have been carried out in an ethical and responsible manner and must comply with all relevant legislation.
  • Authors must present the results of their research clearly, honestly and without fabrication, falsification or improper manipulation of the data.
  • Authors should strive to describe the methods used in the research clearly and unequivocally so that others can confirm their findings, that is, the works should have the necessary information so that they can be repeatable, reproducible and traceable.
  • Work submitted for publication must be original, not plagiarized, and must not have previously been published elsewhere.
  • Authors must assume collective responsibility for the submitted and published work.}
  • Authorship of research publications must accurately reflect the contributions of individuals to the work and its reports.
  • Funding sources and relevant conflicts of interest must be disclosed.

Authorship. The RBA adheres to the definition of author of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and considers that to be an author of the work must have the following conditions:

  1. Have provided a substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data for the work; And
  2. Have participated in the writing of the work or critical review and have given an important intellectual contribution to the content of the manuscript; And
  3. You must have approved the final version to be published; And
  4. Take responsibility for all aspects of the job to ensure that questions regarding the accuracy or completeness of any part of the job are properly investigated and resolved.

Plagiarism. The RBA considers plagiarism as a fraud in the publication and a dishonest behavior, and this is defined as the appropriation of the ideas, processes, results or texts of another person without giving the corresponding credit.

In addition, fraud and misconduct are also understood as manufacturing (invention of data or results), and falsification (manipulation of research materials, equipment, processes to alter data or results, as well as the change or omission of data or results).

The RBA does not tolerate plagiarism, fraud or misconduct, which is why it establishes mechanisms to avoid and remedy it:

During the editorial process, the RBA avoids the publication of plagiarism, fraud and misconduct by using the opinion of peer reviewers and the revision of texts using Text Similarity Software (Turnitin) as a computer tool to detect it.

If the RBA detects or is alerted and confirms cases of plagiarism, fraud or misconduct in a published article, the Editorial Committee will proceed according to the guidelines and recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics, actions that could lead to the retraction of the article. (COPE - http://publicationethics.org/) being able to execute the retraction of the article.