Editorial Policy
Editorial Policy
Manuscripts may be written in Portuguese, English, Spanish or another language upon request.
The manuscript submitted for analysis by e-Acadêmica cannot have been published or simultaneously submitted to another journal. The veracity of the information and bibliographic citations is the sole responsibility of the authors. If simultaneous publication or submission to another journal is identified, the article will be disregarded.
e-Acadêmica follows the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics – COPE.
1 - Peer review
The evaluation of manuscripts in the e-Acadêmica journal is done by peers, using the Double Blind Review method, where each manuscript is evaluated by two or more external ad hoc reviewers, selected by specialty or affinity with the thematic content of the manuscript under consideration.
The vast majority of the journal's reviewers are external to the publishing institution, in addition to the reviewers external to Brazil.
After submission, the manuscript is evaluated by ad hoc reviewers, who analyze it, suggest corrections and improvements. The editor then reviews it, resolves any controversial cases, analyzes the reviews and decides: (1) acceptance, (2) corrections or (3) rejection of the manuscript.
Manuscripts with the option of correction are returned to the authors within 7 days to present the revised version. This period may be extended upon request by the author.
Ad hoc reviewers have the option to accept or reject the evaluation. They have 7 days to perform the evaluation. All manuscripts are reviewed by at least 2 reviewers with expertise in the field.
The author of the manuscript is entirely responsible for the grammatical review. Once the review process is complete, the editorial board will make the final decision regarding the publication of the work. The final review may be: accepted, accepted with modifications, or rejected.
The main advantages of the Double Blind Review process adopted by the journal include:
- a) the identity of the author and reviewer is not known, ensuring impartiality in the evaluation;
- b) greater credibility and prestige of the evaluation processes;
- c) improvement of the process of communicating research results.
- Declaration of Ethics and Good Practices in Publication
The ethics, good practices, misconduct and retraction policy of the e-Acadêmica journal follows the principles of the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics – COPE.
Policy on Conflicts of Interest
Conflicts of interest can be personal, commercial, political, academic or financial in nature. Conflicts of interest can occur when authors, reviewers or editors have personal interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. When submitting the manuscript, authors are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial or other conflicts that may have influenced the work. If there is still a potential conflict of interest, the author(s) must inform it on the title page. When the editors of the e-Academic journal become aware of any allegation of research misconduct related to an article published in the journal, the editors follow the COPE guidelines for dealing with the allegations.
Adoption of similarity verification software
To maintain the transparency of the information contained in the research, the e-Acadêmica journal requests from the author, at the time of sending the final version of the manuscript, a report from the similarity detection software (possibly CopySpider or similar).
In the case of CopySpider Software, authors must send the report showing that the article has a maximum of 3% similarity with other files (and the justification if it is greater than 3%).
The similarity software is used in articles accepted for publication. The check is based on the similarity of content with previous publications. The analysis is performed by checking the paragraphs and their respective references.
Sex and Gender Issues
The editorial team of the e-Acadêmica journal is attentive to the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER); authors who publish in the journal must be attentive to issues of respect for sex and gender. The SAGER guidelines guide the reporting of information on sex and gender in the study design, data analysis, and results and interpretation of findings.
Ethics Committee
Research involving human beings developed in Brazil must present the project approval document by the Research Ethics Committee and/or the National Research Ethics Commission, as recommended by the Ministry of Health, National Health Commission (Res. 466/2012; chap. XII.2). In studies involving human beings, all patients (or their legal representatives) must agree to participate in the study by signing the Free and Informed Consent Form. Research involving human beings developed in other countries must present the local ethics documentation. Research involving animals in Brazil must present the project approval document by the Research Ethics Committee on the Care and Use of Animals (according to Normative Res. 30/2016 of the National Council for the Control of Animal Experimentation). Research involving animals developed in other countries must present the local ethics documentation.
Copyright and Licensing
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
1) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which allows others to share the work with acknowledgement of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2) Authors are authorized to enter into separate, additional contracts for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (e.g., publishing in an institutional repository or as a chapter in a book), with acknowledgement of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
3) Authors are permitted and encouraged to publish and distribute their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their personal website) at any point prior to and during the editorial process, as this can generate productive exchanges, as well as increase the impact and citation of the published work.
Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
All content of e-Acadêmica is licensed under the Creative Commons License
The online journal is open and free access.
Authors assume full responsibility for the content of their articles. e-Acadêmica encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts by posting them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, academic social media, and personal social media (as long as the citation is the same as that on the journal website).
Publication Ethics
Ethics Supplement
The journal is dedicated to complying with good practices regarding moral conduct consistent with the scientific publishing of journals. Preventing negligence is also a crucial responsibility of the author, editor and editorial team: any form of unethical behavior, as well as plagiarism in any instance, is not accepted. Authors who submit articles to the journal guarantee that the work has not been published nor is it in the process of review/evaluation in any other journal.
The e-Academic journal recommends the use of the CONSORT 2010 checklist and flowchart as a condition of submission when reporting the results of randomized health studies. Templates for these can be found here or on the CONSORT website [www.consort-statement.org] which also describes several extensions of the CONSORT checklist for different designs and types of data in addition to two parallel group tests. Articles should report the content addressed by each item on the checklist. Meeting these basic requirements will increase the chances of eventual publication.
We have also signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).
Combating Plagiarism
“In addition to the illegal practice of appropriating the work of others without authorization and without due reference, this harmful procedure infects research, causing irreparable damage.” (National Commission for Institutional Relations and the Sectional of the OAB/Ceará: 2010.19.07379-01; approved by the Federal Council of the Brazilian Bar Association; plenary session: 10/19/2010). All violations are forms of “intellectual dishonesty,” regardless of ethical or legal issues, and are explained in more detail below.
Definitions
Copying (intentional or unintentional) of another author’s words. Whenever an author uses another author’s words, they must be referenced in quotation marks, adding the corresponding citation. Readers of articles published in e-Acadêmica must know whether the words are the author’s or someone else’s.
Copying by the author himself (self-plagiarism). If an author has published an article in journal A, he or she cannot submit the same manuscript to journal B, even with some adjustments. Furthermore, he or she should not take excerpts from the first article for use in a second manuscript without using quotation marks. Each manuscript should be written in its own right, even if there is nothing to report on the subject.
Inadequate attribution of data or ideas: Most authors report ideas and data from others. However, when an author does so without citing the source, this is a form of plagiarism. Copyright infringement occurs when an author (with or without attribution) uses significant portions of a previously published article (including tables and figures). If this plagiarized “writing” is published, the new publisher will be guilty of violating the copyright held by the original publisher. This is a legal issue that can be costly for both the publisher and the author involved.
An author may think that juggling the words of a sentence copied from one article and pasted into another manuscript is appropriate. This is not appropriate. The ordering of the information presented in an article must be original and not follow the ordering of a previously published work, even if closely.
The e-Acadêmica journal has adopted a policy of awareness and information on intellectual property, with specific procedures to prevent plagiarism.
This policy aims to inform authors about acceptable writing practices, thus defining a quality standard for publishing peer-reviewed articles. If plagiarism is detected (by reviewers or staff editors, before or after acceptance, during editing or at any time before publication), the e-Acadêmica team will inform the author, asking him/her to rewrite and cite the original source. If the plagiarism is greater than 30% of the original article, the manuscript will be rejected if the author does not justify it satisfactorily. If plagiarism is detected after publication, the editor-in-chief of the e-Acadêmica journal will notify the authors of the infraction committed by e-mail, requesting corrections within a specific period or automatic exclusion of the article.
e-Acadêmica follows the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
We would like to emphasize that academic plagiarism is a crime at any level and violates Brazilian legislation (article 184 of the Penal Code and article 7, paragraph three, of law 9.610-98) that regulates copyright. Therefore, plagiarism is a civil and criminal matter.
In the event of detected plagiarism, editorial conduct must follow the guidelines of the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics - COPE
