Ethics and Conflict of Interest Statement

REBECIN is a journal that is concerned with ethical conduct and good practices in all stages of the editorial process, and complies with essential requirements that ensure the execution of these good practices, in line with the Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which must be observed by all participants of the editorial team and committee, as well as by the authors.

Authors submitting articles or other documents to REBECIN exclude from the original and the file any authorship identification and declare that its content is original and guarantee that the work has not been published, nor is under revision/evaluation process in any other journal, as well as that they are not identical to works published in scientific event annals. If this criterion is not met, the paper will be rejected by the editor.

It is considered the reviewer's duty to ensure that privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review are kept confidential and not used for personal gain. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have any 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.

REBECIN values ethics in research and requires an impartial evaluation process for authors who submit scientific texts to the journal. Thus, it is essential that the ad hoc reviewers or reviewers have no interests that, apparent or not, may influence the outcome of the evaluation. Conflicts of interest can be of a personal, academic, political, or economic nature.

Thus, the ad hoc reviewer or reviewer should immediately inform the editor of any type of conflict of interest that may, to some extent, influence the evaluation of the text and, therefore, should declare him/herself unqualified to evaluate or review it.