Ethics Charter and Peer-review
Guided by the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, the Editorial Board of Connexe is independently responsible for deciding which submissions the journal shall publish.
Connexe strongly upholds and promotes good research practices. It ensures the quality of research by examining the methodology, the analysis and the bibliography of submissions.
Connexe’s editors are also committed to communicating research in a transparent, fair and unbiased way.
Connexe’s Ethics Charter is based on legal requirements regarding copyright, misconduct, and plagiarism.
Unacceptable research practices include fabrication, falsification and plagiarism. They are described by the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity as follows:
- Fabrication is making up results and recording them as if they were real.
- Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment or processes or changing, omitting or suppressing data or results without justification.
- Plagiarism is using other people’s work and ideas without giving proper credit to the original source, thus violating the rights of the original author(s) to their intellectual outputs
Furthermore, Connexe does not tolerate duplicate submission, i.e. when the same manuscript has been submitted to different journals or online platforms.
Connexe’s editors pre-assess all articles submitted to the journal and take responsible measures to prevent research misconduct. If made aware of allegations of research misconduct, they react appropriately. Regarding plagiarism, all texts submitted to the journal are analysed using tools provided by the Compilatio.net platform.
In no case does Connexe or its editors knowingly allow or encourage dishonest research practices. If infringements of research ethical codes, such as duplicate submission, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like, have occurred in articles submitted to the journal, they will be removed without consideration.
Post-publication updates
Connexe’s post-publication updates to peer-reviewed and non-peer reviewed submissions include corrections, the retraction and removal of articles.
- Corrections will be published should an author or the Editorial Board find serious error(s) undermining the scientific integrity of published material or the reputation of the journal or of its authors.
- Published articles may be retracted if they contain seriously flawed data or grave errors which violate the research ethics of the journal. Retracted articles are marked as such. A PDF version of the original articles remains available to readers and will be accompanied by a retraction statement mentioning the author’s assent or dissent.
- Connexe can exceptionally remove published submissions when their content is defamatory or unlawful. A statement will be published with the metadata of the article, i.e. its title and author, specifying the reasons of the content removal which can be temporary or permanent.
Prior to post-publication updates and if made aware of concerns with published content, Connexe will issue Editor’s Notes as interim notifications for its readers.
Peer-review
Articles in dossiers and Varia articles undergo double-blind peer review by two external reviewers.
A double-blind review means that the identity of the author is unknown to the reviewers and the manuscript is therefore anonymised. Similarly, reviews will be anonymised when sent to authors.
By using evaluation grids (available on request), reviewers give their opinion on the content and form of the manuscripts and on the research problem addressed, which must be clearly defined.
The evaluation process can take from three to six months. The contributions of reviewers to the journal are voluntary.
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