The Editorial board and the Scientific board of Teoría & Derecho would like to pay tribute to Tomás S. Vives Antón, founder and intellectual architect of this journal. The germinal idea was to provide a space for debate and, above all, for the advancement of legal theory, philosophy and doctrine from the different areas of legal knowledge. A guiding thread of the publication that has survived and runs through each of the issues published since 2007.
Ethical guidelines
Ethical Guidelines for Journal Publication
Teoría & Derecho, Revista de Pensamiento Jurídico is an academic journal publishing scientific articles with a firm commitment with the meeting of these ethical standards and good practices. Tirant lo Blanch, as editor of the journal, and its Editorial Board have the responsibility to establish and maintain the guidelines to select and accept papers submitted to this journal, assuming those responsabilities arising from the publishing process. Also, they fully commit to ensure that all parties involved meet the ethics, scientific and scholar standards.
Ethical Obligations of Authors
The authors are expected to adhere to the following ethical guidelines and to respect the instructions for authors, posted to the website of the Journal and included within each issue.
The authors commit to submit orginals which are not submitted to another journals, and to submit them to a double blind review process. The research conducted should be developed according to ethical standards, including sufficient information in the article to allow an academic response. The authors should refer the funding resources to develope the research and achieve the results, as well as the possible influence of these resources in the results.
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of other, that this has been appropriately cited. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical and publishing behavior and is not acceptable. Authors should not engage in plagiarism - verbatim or near-verbatim copying, or very close paraphrasing, of text or results from another’s work.
It is improper for an author to submit manuscripts describing essentially the same research to more than one journal of primary publication, unless it is a resubmission of a manuscript rejected for or withdrawn from publication.
When a fundamental error or a relevant inaccuracy within already published articles is known, the authors should advertise it to the editors.
Ethical Obligations of Editors
The Editor should be responsible for the accomplishment of these and above obligations, and shall ensure the scientific and academic quality of the journal Teoría & Derecho, including the respect of legal issues concerning submissions to this Journal, specially intellectual property rights.
The editor should respect the intellectual independence of authors and should consider manuscripts submitted for publication, judging each on its own merits. They are also in charge to ensure that authors and reviewers get involve in a double blind review process. The final decision and the responsibility for acceptance or rejection of a manuscript rests with the Editorial Board.
The editor is required to seek advice from reviewers, who will be chosen for their expertise and good judgment, as to the quality and reliability of manuscripts submitted for publication. However, manuscripts may be rejected without external review if considered by the editors to be inappropriate for the journal. Such rejections may be based on the failure of the manuscript to fit the scope of the journal, to be of current or sufficiently broad interest, to provide adequate depth of content, to be written properly, or other reasons related to the journal. Therefore, contributions may be reviewed solely according to their contents, regardless their commercial interest and without discrimination on the basis of racial, ideological, religious, gender, or any other feature of the author.
The editor should inform about the result of the assessment reports to the authors without disclosing any detail about the reviewers’ identity, but the editor should provide the most detailed information about the criteria used by the revieweres to assess the submission.
Members of the Editorial Board and members of the editor’s staff should not disclose any information about a manuscript under consideration to anyone other than those from whom professional advice is sought. Confidentiality shall be protected in any case during the peer-review process. The editor should refrain from participating in the review process in case of any conflict of interest due to a competitive or collaboration relation with the author/s of the submission.
Unpublished information, arguments, or interpretations disclosed in a submitted manuscript should not be used in an editor´s own research.
Ethical Obligations of Manuscript Reviewers
Reviewers have an obligation to do a fair share of reviewing. A reviewer of a manuscript should judge objectively the quality of the manuscript and its originality, with due regard to the maintenance of high scientific and theoretical standards. A reviewer should call to the editor’s attention any substantial similarity between the manuscript under consideration and any published paper or any manuscript submitted concurrently to another journal.
The reviewer should inform the editor about any substantive similarity of the submission under review with any other submission or published article in any other journal or publication.
Reviewers should act promptly, submitting a report in a timely manner. A chosen reviewer who feels inadequately qualified to judge the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process as soon as possible.
A reviewer should treat a manuscript sent for review as a confidential document. It should neither be shown to nor discussed with others except, in special cases, to persons from whom specific advice may be sought; in that event, the identities of those consulted should be disclosed to the editor.
Corrections and retraction
In case of misconduct, inaccuracy or any fraudulent, false or misleading information published in the journal Teoría & Derecho, the editor should consult the author/s giving them the oppotunity to respond to any allegations before taking an editorial decision. In case of insufficient or lack of response, the editor may decide to adopt a formal retraction or withdrawal of a publication fromt the journal, in conjunction with informing the head of the author or reviewer’s department, Abstracting & Indexing services and the readership of the publication, with the agreement of the Editorial Board.
The journal Teoría & Derecho will take account of any claim and complaint about the published contents through the email teoria.derecho@uv.es. The editor is fully committed to follow them up and proceed to the review and, when applicable, to the retraction. When a retraction or corrections proceed, the editor will follow the Guidelines for Retracting Articles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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