Declaration of malpractice:

Ágora de Heterodoxias

Ágora de Heterodoxias, a digital scientific journal with a publishing policy in which papers´ probity and authenticity prevail, states the following criteria to be considered when publishing a manuscript, so malpractice is not declared

Authors must guarantee the rights of the people who participate in the investigation.
Under no circumstance authors can submit simultaneously the same manuscript to different journals. The unpublished character of the dispatched manuscript must be granted via a signed statement in which this condition is declared.
Authors will be penalized if citation manipulation is discovered. Citation manipulation includes: a) using citation without verifying the sources, b) avoiding citations that contradict the research itself, c) Citation exchange; that is to say: the evidence of the alliance between researchers to name one another and their investigations even when there is no correspondence among the cited sources.
Authors as well as editor must ensure that there won’t be authoring conflicts, as the type of contribution that grants authorship, the number of authors and their order, ghost authorship, and underserved or honorary authorship.
Malpractice will be determined when proving duplication or segmentation of the manuscript, when it is proved that the author has used full results or partially of a research with changes in title or resume, or other language is presented to show co-authors.
Authors, editors and reviewers must have an ethic commitment with the scientific task. The search and questioning of the truth assisted by the scientific method must prevail, which claims the ethic practice for the full exercise of the investigation.
Editors, reviewers and authors will co-responsibly guarantee an ethical practice of the publication, which is why it is necessary to grant: a) the strict compliance with the rules of Agora de Heterodoxia when receiving a manuscript. b) a meticulous and substantiated double-blind-review by referees, so the submitted information is whether validated or not. Arbitrators will comply with the anti-plagiarism policy, which has already been described on the ethic aspects of Agora de Heterodoxias, It states the use of anti-plagiarism software, and includes penalty for the fabrication and falsification of altered images and data, presented either/or an intentional way, knowingly, or with imprudence, on detriment with science and society, c) that the editor, as an intermediary among the author, the reviewer, and the readers, fulfils the responsibility to select the manuscripts that abide the journal´s regulations and make a contribution to social sciences and the social historical context, so then, on the bases of peer review, make the decision of whether or not accept a paper.
Neither the editor nor the arbitrators will impose the author the obligatory citation of previous works published by Agora de Heterodoxia, nor his own works.
Solving conflict of interests: a) there shouldn’t be any kind of relationship between the authors and the editors, whether personal, professional, or economical, so to countersign the impartiality and transparency of the publication, b) as for the arbitrators they must notify almost immediately of any conflict of interest that could create any kind of partiality towards the manuscript, so that they shall resign from the arbitration process.
Categoric denial of any interference of the institution or the promoter agency with the editor´s job by pushing his/her decision regarding to the publish process.
If authors, reviewers, or editors fail the comply of any of the above rules they will be committing malpractice, which must be reported and sanctioned.
Those who are accused of malpractice will be protected against false or anonymous complaints. The latter will be considered when there is enough suitable evidence to start the investigation.