Authorship Ethical Norms

Ethical Norms

The journal Perspectiva Educacional of Pontificia Universidad Católica of Valparaíso is committed to maintaining the highest standards of quality and integrity in the publishing of scientific articles according to the guidelines established in its editorial  For this, the following ethical standards apply:

  1. Article Publication Decision

The editor of the journal with the team of co-editors are ultimately responsible for the decisions made about the publications of articles. These decisions are based on both statements made concerning the journals editorial profile attainment, scientific quality, editing and ethical standards, and the assessment of the articles by the evaluators.

  1. Use and Confidentiality of the Articles

The editor and co-editors affirm not to use, without the express permission of the authors, the information generated by the original articles submitted to the journal. If an author manifested a claim regarding this point, a letter would be sent with the justified responses to what has been raised.

The use of the synthesis of the articles published in Perspectiva Educacional, for the editing of the Educational Bulletin that the journal distributes in schools of the region, is requested with formal letter sent to the authors for the authorization of the publication.

The journal maintains absolute confidentiality throughout the whole editing process, protecting the authors and evaluators' anonymity, regarding revised content, evaluation guidelines and any other communication issued by the editor, co-editors, editorial and scientific council, as needed.

The highest standards of confidentiality for clarifications, complaints or claims that authors can present regarding the editorial process and article evaluation are applied.

The names of the evaluators that take part in the assessment of articles will be disclosed in a general list, published annually, without any association to the article evaluated.

  1. Originality and Plagiarism

Perspectiva Educacional will be particularly vigilant in identifying and sanctioning cases of plagiarism. In this sense, manuscripts in which some degrees of similarity with other works already published, copies of paragraphs or omissions in reference to a previous published work are detected, will be eliminated from the journal and/or automatically excluded from publication. The editor will inform the author of this transgression.

Therefore, the authors, by accepting the rules of the journal, commit to ensuring that the submitted article is an original work and does not infringe rights of third parties.

When the authorship of an article is shared, must formally declare that:

a) All authors have intellectually contributed in de development of it
b) All authors agree with the content of the manuscript
c) The work hasn't been previously published in any other magazine or format

Authors should ensure that the data presented in the article are reliable and haven't been altered for the verification of the hypotheses or assumptions formulated.

  1. Quality and Integrity of Publication

Perspectiva Educacional cares especially for authors and readers, for it strives to provide the highest quality of published articles, submitting them to a rigorous evaluation process (see "Publication Ethics"), protecting rights over article content and respecting the integrity of the published articles.

On the other hand, the authors should ensure that the literature and research reviewed during the preparation of the article are current and relevant, considering the schools of thought relevant to the subject, focus and/or research questions.

  1. Conflict of Interest

Any article that is the result of research with external financing must have publication consent from the institution to which the publication is attached.

Any commercial association that may cause a conflict of interest about the submitted article must be communicated by the authors.