Policy Guidelines

EDITORIAL POLICY - CODE OF ETHICS AND GOOD EDITORIAL PRACTICES

  • Editorial Policy with Open Science

  • Digital Preservation Policy

  • Copyright Policy

  • Open Access Policy

  • Ethical Commitment

  • Errata and Retraction Policy

 

Editorial Policy with Open Science

The Aurora Journal of Philosophy, following the recommendations and policies, publishes manuscripts deposited in Open Repositories (SciELO Data, bioRxiv, Preprints, among others), as well as submits its articles to the Peer and Blind Review process. In addition, will publish, in each issue:

  1. the name of the editor in charge;
  2. the list of the reviewers responsible for the manuscript evaluations - identified with their respective ORCID - as well as, when necessary and by common agreement, the opening of identities between the author and reviewers; and
  3. the manuscript opinions. For this, authors and reviewers must accept the terms and conditions mentioned above.

 

EDITORIAL POLICY - CODE OF ETHICS AND GOOD EDITORIAL PRACTICES

The Aurora journal has a code of ethics for publication that follows the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) standards of good practice:

  1. Publication Decision: the decision may rely on the decision of the other editors and reviewers in double-review and blind-review processes;
  2. Fair Play: the scientific/intellectual content makes no distinction of any kind between authors or their political positioning;
  3. Confidentiality: the Journal does not disclose any of the authors' data, preserving their records, except when authorized by the author.
    (d) Conflicts of interest: editors, reviewers, and authors should not comment when there is a conflict of interest with the Journal. Aurora does not admit insider information, false or plagiarism, and practices that violate the previous assumptions or the civil/penal legislation in force in Brazil.

Digital Preservation Policy

The Journal is hosted on PUCPR's Periodical Portal, which guarantees the preservation of its digital content in two ways. First, security copies (backups) are made daily. The Journal is also published in SCIELO, where the texts are in PDF and XML format. This journal follows the standards defined in the SciELO Program Digital Preservation Policy.

Copyright Policy

The authors grant the exclusive right of first publication to the Journal, and the work is simultaneously licensed under the 4.0 International - Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. This license allows third parties to remix, adapt, and create from the published work, giving due credit for authorship and initial publication in this Journal. In addition, authors are permitted to enter into additional separate agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this Journal (e.g., published in an institutional repository, on a personal website, published a translation, or as a book chapter), with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this Journal.

Free Access Policy

To ensure greater equal access to scientific knowledge, the Journal adopts the Attribution 4.0 International - Creative Commons International (CC BY) license. Readers have free and immediate access to the content. The Journal authorizes the work's distribution, remix, adaptation, and creation, even for commercial purposes, as long as credit is given to the author.

Ethical Commitment

The Journal follows the ethical publishing standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Practices of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, falsification, and data fabrication are not permitted. These scientific misconducts are defined respectively by the Brazilian Academy of Sciences:

  1. Plagiarism involves the appropriation of ideas and works from third parties without proper credit;
  2. Self-plagiarism or republication of already published scientific results as if they were new, without informing the previous publication;
  3. Falsification or manipulation of data, procedures, and results;
  4. Fabricating results and records as if they were real;

All manuscripts submitted to the Journal are examined using plagiarism detection software Ithenticate.

Errata and Retraction Policy

The COPE and Council of Science Editors guidelines are followed for article correction. Based on these sources, there are three methods for correcting scientific literature:

  1. Errata – refers to amendments in parts of the article. Corrections can be made to the title of the article, authors' names, and typographical or layout errors;
  2. Retraction – refers to partial corrections of the article due to methodological errors, incorrect data analysis, scientific misconduct, or non-reproducible research. There is also the possibility of removing the entire article from the Journal's page;
  3. Expression of concern – refers to the publication of a warning by the Editor when there is concern about the reliability of an article. However, the information is insufficient to justify a retraction.

The editors will review all communications that point out problems in a publication, whether minor or significant. Requests for corrections should be sent to the e-mail address of the Editor responsible for the Journal. If the editors confirm the allegations, they may ask authors to correct occasional errors or mistakes, or they may consider retracting a publication based on COPE and Council of Science Editors guidelines for correcting articles.

The editors can consider retracting a publication when:

  1. Authors refuse to correct errors or mistakes when asked to do so by the editors;
  2. There is clear evidence that the research findings are unreliable, either as a result of a robust error, invention (e.g., of information), or falsification (e.g., image manipulation);
  3. There is plagiarism, self-plagiarism, or redundant publication;
  4. Research findings have been previously published elsewhere, and there is no citation, communication of the fact to editors, permission to republish, or justification;
  5. Contains information or materials without permission to use;
    6. Copyright has been infringed, or there is some other relevant legal issue (for example, in the use of images without permission);
    7. Presents unethical research;
    8. It has been published solely based on compromised or manipulated peer review;
    9. The authors have not disclosed a material conflict of interest that, in the editors' view, would have unduly affected the interpretations of the manuscript or the recommendations of the editors and referees.

The editors will not consider retracting an article when:

  1. There is a dispute over publication authorship but no reason to doubt the validity of the research findings;
  2. The main research findings are still reliable, and any errors can be corrected;
  3. The editors have inconclusive evidence to support retraction or are awaiting additional information, such as that from institutional research;
  4. Authors' conflicts of interest were communicated to the Journal after publication, but from the editors' perspective, they did not influence the article's interpretations or conclusions.

The author responsible for the article must make the correction request and writing. If there is disagreement among the authors about what is being corrected, the journal editor is responsible for writing the correction. The erratum, retraction, or expression of concern will be published as soon as possible, with the article remaining on the Journal's page with the suggested correction.