Code of ethics

Declaration of Ethics and Good Editorial Practices

PSIDIAL: Psicología y Diálogo de Saberes (e-ISNN: 2806-5972) has a biannual frequency, publishing two issues per year. It circulates from January to June and from July to December, with continuous publication within the indicated periods. Articles are published as they are approved within each period. Special issues may also be edited depending on needs. The journal is aimed at the scientific community of researchers in Psychology and related sciences. Its target audience and topics of interest are related to authors affiliated with higher education institutions, private and state research organizations, addressing topics on Psychology, its basic research areas, and other disciplines related to Psychology, providing original information to psychological knowledge, resulting from worldwide research.

Integrity and Ethics

PSIDIAL: Psychology and Dialogue of Knowledge Journal commits to maintaining the integrity of the work it publishes, paying special attention to issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism, and other infractions of best publication practices. The material received will be evaluated for relevance by the Editorial Board and subjected to the anti-plagiarism detection system Compilatio. The aim is to protect the authors' rights and the journal's reputation against publication malpractices.

Objectives

1. Publish scientific production in the field of psychological sciences, resulting from local, regional, national, and international research.
2. Strengthen the presence, social, and humanistic value of psychological sciences through the construction of knowledge supported by scientific instruments.
3. Contribute to the consolidation of a scientific community in psychological sciences at the national and international levels.
4. Encourage research in psychological sciences, promoting reflection on crucial aspects of daily, social, and political life.
5. Encourage multidisciplinary research from the field of psychological sciences.
6. Disseminate an open-access academic journal, complying with international indexing service standards.
7. Promote good research practices and academic ethics.
8. Prioritize reflection spaces in psychological studies.

Editorial Board

The Director, General Editor, or Section Editors manage the received manuscripts, review formal aspects, and oversee the adoption of best publication practices. The Editorial Board, composed of national and international academics, evaluates the thematic relevance of the manuscripts. The Reviewers or Referees Committee ensures research quality, methodological relevance, and scientific rigor. The acceptance or rejection of a manuscript is the Editor's responsibility based on the academic peer review.

PSIDIAL: Psychology and Dialogue of Knowledge Journal presents the authors' affiliation data (institution, email). It also provides information on editorial processes, arbitration, acceptance, galley proofs, and criteria and procedures to follow, such as checklists, preliminary checks, manuscript presentation, and citation norms, among others.

Peer Review Process

The academic peer review process involves the evaluation of manuscripts and research validation. It resorts to internal or external experts, unrelated to the institution from which the manuscripts are received, and is conducted through the double-blind method. Peer review guarantees manuscript evaluation rigor, applying quality, credibility, relevance, and feasibility criteria for the research to be published.

Review Principles

• Manuscript evaluation, sent to up to five specialized referees.
• Impartiality, respecting authors' values and intellectual freedom.
• Honesty, transparency, and objectivity in manuscript evaluation.
• Confidentiality of manuscript content and authors.
• Manuscript assessment or rejection, based on quality, research areas, or journal objectives.
• Retraction of published articles for unreliable results, errors, source omissions, or scientific fraud.
• Conflict of interest, evaluators with any academic, labor, or personal relationship with the author must abstain.
• Originality, manuscripts are evaluated for authenticity using the Compilatio software.

Authorship Norms

Authors must ensure the originality of the data and results. Plagiarism, multiple or redundant publication, and data fabrication or manipulation are serious ethical violations considered scientific fraud. Authors submitting to the journal must commit not to submit to another journal during evaluation.

Bibliographic References

Manuscripts must recognize incorporated publications through citations and use original sources, avoiding irrelevant sources. The journal does not restrict reference quantities but limits excessive self-citations unless justified and relevant. The use of references from national and international journals is important, limiting restricted circulation publications.

Director and Editor

• Ensure appropriate profiles in the editorial and advisory committees.
• Provide details on the duties of committee members, reviewers, and authors.
• Consult editorial committee members on journal functioning and policy changes.
• Maintain editorial independence from external pressures.

Editorial Board

• Promote discussion and feedback from authors, readers, reviewers, and committee members on editorial improvements.
• Continuously evaluate peer review processes.
• Support initiatives to reduce academic misconduct and educate authors on publication ethics.
• Update journal objectives and policies based on author and reviewer performance.
• Foster responsible behavior and discourage misconduct.

Reviewers

• Understand review guidelines, responding assertively and timely.
• Report conflicts of interest related to manuscript review.
• Comment on ethical issues and research misconduct in manuscripts.
• Ensure manuscript originality and confidentiality.
• Detect related publications through consultation with the executive editor or associated editors.

Authors

• Know the journal's publication norms.
• Review information on copyright, authorship criteria, code of ethics, anti-plagiarism policies, and other ethical editorial processes.
• Respond assertively to manuscript reviews.
• Follow coordination guidelines to ensure work quality.
• Report conflicts of interest related to the work or editorial process.
• No payment for any review or publication phases.

Editorial and Peer Review Processes

• Ensure editorial process participants receive proper training and are informed of the latest guidelines, recommendations, and advancements.
• Guarantee timely and straightforward reception, evaluation, information, and publication processes, ensuring prompt publication.
• Periodically review peer review practices to adopt immediate correctives for a successful, ethical, and timely process.

Quality Assurance

• Maintain vigilant and critical conduct to detect falsified data or controversial information.
• Ensure quality peer review through timely review guidelines and authors' compliance with recommendations.
• Ensure published work corresponds with peer-reviewed corrections.

Individual Data Protection

• Ensure confidentiality of data related to published works and involved individuals.
• Manuscript details remain confidential, limited to the author, possible reviewers, editorial advisors, and our editorial team.

Academic Integrity

• Promote ethical conduct in research, especially involving people, animals, or the environment.
• All manuscripts are reviewed based on academic merit, including relevance, originality, research validity, clarity, and alignment with the journal's focus. Reviews are free from biases regardless of origin, beliefs, nationality, orientation, political position, or institutional affiliation of the author.

Intellectual Property

• Implement anti-plagiarism policy using specialized software routinely and when plagiarism is suspected.
• Support authors whose copyright has been violated or who have been victims of plagiarism.
• PSIDIAL: Psychology and Dialogue of Knowledge Journal states that contribution content is entirely the authors' responsibility, who retain their copyright, and not the journal or the authors' institutions. The journal has a Creative Commons license allowing sharing, copying, distributing, and publicly communicating the content under the following conditions:

Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives (BY-NC-ND): material can be distributed, copied, and displayed if credited. No commercial use. No derivative works.

Editorial Entity

• Ensure harmonious relationships among different entities involved in the editorial process.
• Establish regular communication with the journal's coordination and editorial committee to know and promote development plans related to the editorial process.
• Recognize the performance of editorial process personnel and promote the journal's intellectual production nationally and internationally.

Openness and Conflict Resolution

• Unpublished information from presentations is not used for personal research by our editorial team without the author's consent. All sensitive data acquired during manuscript evaluation remains private and is not used for personal benefit. Editors recuse themselves from conflicts involving authors or affiliated institutions, relying on another council member.
• Reviewers are recommended to consider potential conflicts of interest before reviewing a manuscript. Conflicts may include close colleagues of the author(s), research or publication on the author's topic, participation in projects benefiting from the author's work, or having helped the author(s). Reviewers should inform the Editor if any conflict exists to find a different evaluator. Evaluators should refuse if a conflict exists or declare it early to avoid accusations and delays in the review process.
• For special cases, PSIDIAL: Psychology and Dialogue of Knowledge Journal's editorial team may consult the Bioethics Committee of the Technical University of Manabí, following established regulations and suggestions.