The Revista del Centro de Investigación de la Universidad La Salle adheres to the standards for best research practices and publications issued by the Comittee on Publications Ethics (COPE). In this sense, it is expected that authors, editors and reviewers comply with the best practices in ethical publications, thus avoiding unjustified authorship, parallel submissions, plagiarism, and manipulation of results. Likewise, this policy seeks to promote confidentiality and the declaration of conflicts of interest.

Policy on redundant publications

A redundant publication is considered to be one in which there is an overlap of the hypothesis, methodology and general results of two or more articles that have one or more authors in common. Due to this overlap, the information offered in the article is not very original and not relevant.

The Editorial Committee will be in charge of dealing with the notifications from the reviewers or the editors on a possible redundant publication. This committee should verify the originality of the manuscript in the different databases and journals. In case the manuscript to be published incurs redundancy, the degree of overlap will be determined and the author will be consulted. If the author's response is not satisfactory, the manuscript will be rejected and the reviewers will be informed of the result.

If a published article have incurs in redundancy, the journal will publish a retraction declaration of the article and the editor of the other journal will be notified. The article will be removed from the journal and the authors will be banned from any possibility of publishing in the Revista del Centro de Investigación de la Universidad La Salle in the future.

Plagiarism detection policy

The objective of the plagiarism detection policy is to take care of the intellectual property rights of third parties. The Editorial Committee should verify that in the manuscript to be published there are no omissions of citations and references and that the content does not correspond to an author other than the applicant in the journal. The Revista del Centro de Investigación de la Universidad La Salle uses an anti-plagiarism software to perform the review of submitted manuscripts (iThenticate).

The reviewers or editors may suggest the inclusion of those citations that consider that the manuscript is missing. In case of signs of minor omissions, the author will be contacted to request the inclusion of missing citations and references. If it is proven that a substantial extension of the manuscript belongs to an author other than the applicant, the author will be informed and the manuscript will be rejected. Authors who have committed plagiarism will be banned from any possibility of publishing in the "Revista del Centro de Investigación de la Universidad La Salle" in the future.

If it is confirmed that a published article has been plagiarized by other published work, the article will be retracted from the journal and it will publish a retraction declaration of the article. Authors who have committed plagiarism will be banned from any possibility of publishing in the "Revista del Centro de Investigación de la Universidad La Salle" in the future.

Invented data detection policy, anomalous data or data manipulation

This policy aims to ensure that the information offered in the article is properly supported, i.e. that there is no data that has been invented or manipulated within the article.

The Editorial Committee will deal with the notifications from the reviewers or the editors about a possible manipulation or invention of the information that a manuscript exposes to publish and will ask a new reviewer to revise the information of the manuscript. If in this second revision, evidence of manipulation or invention of data is confirmed, the committee will contact the author. If the author does not provide a satisfactory response or if the author admits manipulation of the information, the Editorial Committee will inform the person responsible for the research standards of the institution to which the author is affiliated. The manuscript that incurs this fault will be rejected.

If the journal is notified that a published article incurs this fault, the Editorial Committee will perform the steps mentioned above to verify the manipulation or invention of data. If the manipulation is confirmed, the journal will publish a retraction of the publication and the article will be removed from the Journal. The Editorial Committee will inform the person responsible for the research standards of the institution to which the author belongs. The authors will be banned from any possibility of publishing in the "Revista del Centro de Investigación de la Universidad La Salle" in the future.

Confidentiality

The Revista del Centro de Investigación de la Universidad La Salle is committed to ensuring the quality of the editorial process in accordance with COPE guidelines. All materials submitted along with the manuscript will be strictly treated as confidential until published. Editors and reviewers are strictly prohibited from sharing manuscript information in evaluation with third parties.

Anonymity

Throughout the editorial process the anonymity of both arbitrators and authors will be preserved. Authors should ensure that their names do not appear in the submitted manuscript. In addition, no reference to the authors should be added in the first version of the manuscript. Any type of recognition to the author will be added in the latest version of the manuscript after the conclusion of the review process.