Publication Ethics

MediCiego assumes the code of conduct and good practices of the International Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE) http://publicationethics.org/files/All_Flowcharts_Spanish_0.pdf, which defines the appropriate performance and the authors, editors and reviewers duties, as well as the sanctions for its violation.

The approval of this code is intended to maximize the benefits of open science for society, for this reason the journal establishes its responsibility to maintain high ethical standards, consistent with the publication of articles.

Duties of the authors:

  • Ensure that data was collected ethically and be prepared to demonstrate that your research has been approved by your institution.
  • Submit papers that are not published or under evaluation in other journals.
  • Ensure that the articles comply with the ethical standards established by the journal.
  • Declare any conflict of interest if they exist.
  • Submit the corrected article within the period established by the editor.

Duties of the editors:

  • Proceed in accordance with the journal's editorial policies.
  • Consider the article without taking into account prejudices based on skin color, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin or citizenship.
  • Do not disclose information about submitted articles to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, or editorial committee member.
  • Do not use the information of an article without the consent of the author.
  • Maintain confidentiality and not use information or ideas obtained through peer review for personal gain.

Duties of reviewers:

  • Notify the editor if you do not consider yourself duly qualified or cannot complete the evaluation within the established period.
  • Consider any work received for review as a confidential document. It should not be shown or discussed with others, if not authorized by the publisher.
  • Appropriately use scientific criticism. Do not make personal criticisms of the author.
  • Alert the editor to any substantial similarity between the work under consideration and any other publication of which you are aware.

The following are considered ethical misconduct in scientific publication:

  1. Misconduct in research: refers to the fabrication, falsification and alteration of data, biases or manipulation of information and plagiarism when proposing, conducting or reviewing the research. If the Editorial Committee suspects it, it will request an investigation in this regard from the institution that supports the investigation, the employer, sponsor, or the competent national body.
  2. Irregularities in the investigation: irregularities in the investigation, carried out by identified persons or anonymously, will be reported only if they are accompanied by the respective evidence.
  3. Fabrication, falsification or manipulation of images: sometimes it is necessary to edit images to reveal certain characteristics, however, when their manipulation is inappropriate it creates misleading results. Researchers must report when they edit images. They should also follow the following recommendations:
  • The specific characteristics must not be altered.
  • The original images must accompany the modified image intended for publication.
  • Adjustments to brightness or contrast can only be used when they are applied equally to the entire image and do not misrepresent its meaning.
  • Excessive editing to emphasize an image size is inappropriate.
  • If any part of a recording or non-linear fit is deleted, it should be noted in the figure legend.
  • Figures must not be built from different components. However, if the author considers it necessary, then it must be clearly indicated by dividing lines in the figure and in the legend.
  1. Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the copying or misuse of another person's intellectual property. Researchers must not present as their own parts of other works or data from others. At MediCiego all manuscripts are analyzed to detect plagiarism and its policy in this regard is as follows:

• The editors, before beginning and throughout the editorial process, carry out checks to detect possible plagiarism using tools such as:
Plagiarism Checker https://www.duplichecker.com/
Quetext https://www.quetext.com/
Plagiarisma http://plagiarisma.net/es/
They will also check the bibliographical references to detect possible plagiarism. If the percentage of similarity between texts is greater than 20%, it could be plagiarism; In this case, they will contact the authors of the work to clarify the circumstances or assess their rejection.

  • Articles must not contain fragments of texts from works previously published or in the process of being published in journal or other media, without proper citation.
  • If a previous version of an article has been previously published, this must be expressly indicated in the notes. The new version must have substantial new features. The journal will reject articles that incur different forms of plagiarism.
  • In the event of a complaint or detection of plagiarism, the Editorial Committee will set up a committee of experts to investigate and rule on the violation, and if proven, the article will be withdrawn and a retraction note will be entered in its place, prior communication to the institution that supports the article, to the employer, sponsor, or to the competent national organism.

Readers are requested, in the event of detection of plagiarism, to inform the MediCiego Editorial Committee of the title, name(s) of the author(s), volume, number and year of publication and other aspects of the article or document involved in plagiarism. , through the email address rey.say@infomed.sld.cu

  1. Duplicate and redundant publication of data: within these situations, duplication of information and recycling of texts are considered when the partial results of a previous publication are addressed to a different audience. The latter is only admitted when the discussion and conclusion are different. If the Editorial Committee identifies any of these situations, the manuscript will be rejected.

Duplicate publications are not considered: abstracts and posters presented at conferences, results presented at scientific meetings, results in databases and clinical trial registries that have not been interpreted, as well as dissertations and theses compiled in university repositories.

  1. Sanctions: Sanctions are applied consistently after careful consideration; the journal will decline to review the future work of the authors involved.