Ethics Declaration

Policy on Publication Ethics Statement, Good Practices and Improper Procedures in Publications (*)

Debates em Psiquiatria is committed to complying with good practices regarding moral conduct consistent with scientific journal publishing, based on the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) code of conduct. Preventing negligence is also a crucial responsibility of the editor and editorial team. Any form of unethical behavior, as well as plagiarism in any instance, is not accepted. Authors submitting articles to the journal declare that their content is original and guarantee that the work has not been published nor is it under review/evaluation in any other journal.

In addition, Debates em Psiquiatria is committed to ethics and quality in publishing. We support standards of ethical behavior expected of all parties involved in publishing in our journal: the author, the journal editor, the reviewers and the publisher. We do not accept plagiarism or any other unethical behavior.

Duties of Editors:

Publication Decision: The journal editor is responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published. The editor is guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and in strict compliance with legal requirements regarding defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editor may consult with the editorial board or contributors in making decisions.
Fairness Rules: The editor must evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content, without regard to the race, sex, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, nationality, or political philosophy of the authors.
Confidentiality: The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to any other person, with the exception of the author himself, reviewers, potential contributors, other editorial advisors, and the publisher, as applicable.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: The editor must not use unpublished information in his or her own research without the express written consent of the author. The editor should refrain from reviewing manuscripts in which he or she has a conflict of interest resulting from competitive or collaborative relationships or any other type of relationship or connections with any of the authors, companies or (possibly) institutions that are linked/connected to the articles.
Participation and cooperation in investigations: The editor should take reasonable responsive measures when ethical complaints have been filed regarding a submitted manuscript or published article.

Reviewers' Duties:

Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review helps the editor in making editorial decisions and through editorial communications with the author can also assist the author in improving the article.
Punctuality: Any selected referee who does not feel qualified to evaluate the research reported in a manuscript or knows that prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself or herself from the review process.
Confidentiality: All manuscripts received for review should be treated as confidential documents. They should not be shown to or discussed with others.
Objectivity standards: Reviews should be conducted objectively and reviewers should express their opinions clearly with supporting arguments.
Source Acknowledgement: Peer reviewers should identify relevant published works that have not been cited by the authors. The reviewer should also draw the editor’s attention to any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript in question and any other published work of which they have personal knowledge.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review should be kept confidential and not used for personal gain. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest resulting from competitive or collaborative relationships or any other type of relationship or connections with any of the authors, companies or (possibly) institutions that are linked/connected to the articles.

Authors’ Duties:

Standards of Reporting: Authors of original research reports must present an accurate account of the work performed and an objective analysis of its significance. Underlying data must be accurately presented in the paper. A paper must contain sufficient detail and references to enable others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or intentionally inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that their work is entirely original, and if authors have used the work and/or words of other authors, these must have been properly cited or quoted. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
Multiple, redundant, or concurrent publications: An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously and/or publishing the same paper in different journals constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
Acknowledgement of Sources: Appropriate acknowledgement of the work of others should always be made. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the work reported. Information obtained in private, such as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, should not be used or reported without the explicit written permission of the source. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereed manuscripts or grant applications, should not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the work involved in such services.
Authorship of the Article: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project should also be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the article, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and agreed to its submission for publication.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors must disclose in their manuscripts any financial or substantive/material conflicts of interest that could lead to influence the results or interpretations in their manuscripts. All sources of financial support for the project must be disclosed.
Fundamental errors in published works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his or her own published work, it is the author's obligation to immediately notify the journal editor or publisher and to cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the article.

Publisher's Duties

We are committed to ensuring that obtaining advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue does not have any impact or influence on editorial decisions.

Our articles are peer reviewed to ensure the quality of scientific publications and we are also users of Crossref's Similarity, ITHENTICATE platform (software for identifying plagiarism and similarity).

(*) This Ethics Policy is based on recommendations from Elsevier  and COPE - Committee on Publication Ethics - Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Source: Statement based on RDBCI: Digital Journal of Library and Information Science