Code of Ethics

The mission of the journal GénEroos is to serve as an editorial space for research and dissemination of gender studies, which publishes issues with free themes and special single-thematic issues, with the aim of disseminating research and dissemination of gender studies. In this sense, the scientific articles, essays and reviews presented in this publication are a plural forum that enables the analysis and debate of various theoretical and practical proposals that, from multiple disciplines, emerge to promote the establishment of a culture of equity. Therefore, this publication acquires an editorial commitment based on honesty and excellence, so its editors, reviewers and authors acquire the following responsibilities:

• To guarantee originality and avoid plagiarism in the writings published in the journal GénEroos, so it is necessary to respect the citation rules and the parameters required by the publication when sending a paper, all with the intention of respecting the work of other cited authors, as well as guaranteeing the originality of the hypotheses raised and the veracity of the data provided by the creators of the content.
• Likewise, it is important that the authors commit themselves not to carry out multiple, repetitive and simultaneous work on the topics published by GénEroos, since this flagrantly threatens the originality of the work and can lead to an alteration of results by the authors.
• In addition to the above, it is essential that the authors who participate in the publication of GénEroos, confirm the veracity in the development of their research work, both of the databases, theoretical references, empirical data since thanks to the above the hypotheses would be scientifically verified.
• It is also necessary that the author participating in GénEroos always provide the correct indication of the sources and contributions mentioned in the article.
• Similarly, it is of great relevance to highlight the authorship of the manuscripts taken as support, so it is unavoidable to refer to those people who have made a significant scientific and intellectual contribution in the conceptualization and planning of the work, as well as in the interpretation of the results and in its writing.
• In this situation, it is necessary to take into account that the hierarchy of the authors must be based on their level of responsibility and involvement in the development of the research.
• With regard to the work of the editors of GénEroos, it should be noted that, if deemed necessary, the writers of the articles must also make available the sources or data on which the research is based, a situation that may be maintained for a reasonable period of time after publication and possibly made accessible for future research.
• With regard to possible conflicts of interest and disclosure, authors are obliged to explicitly declare that there are no conflicts of this nature that may have influenced the results obtained or the proposed interpretations, so authorships must indicate any funding from agencies and/or projects from which the research article submitted to the journal GénEroos arises.
• All authors accept responsibility for what they have written in their scientific work, so they also undertake to carry out a review of the most current and relevant scientific literature on the subject analysed, taking into account the different currents of knowledge in a plural way.
• With regard to delivery times, the reviewer who does not feel competent in the subject to be ruled on or who cannot finish the evaluation due to force majeure in the scheduled time, must immediately notify the edition of the journal.
• The reviewers undertake to evaluate the papers in the shortest possible time, in order to respect the deadlines, given that the limits of custody of the manuscripts awaiting opinion are limited and inflexible out of respect for the authors and their works.
• Each assigned manuscript should be considered confidential. Therefore, these texts should not be discussed with others without the express consent of the editors and authors.
• The review will be carried out by specialists, who will carry out their work objectively, so it is not considered appropriate to present personal judgments about the authors of the contributions.
• Reviewers are required to give sufficient reasons for their assessments. The reviewers will deliver a complete critical report with appropriate references according to the review protocol of the GénEroos journal and the public regulations for reviewers; especially if the job is proposed to be rejected.
• Likewise, authors are obliged to warn editors if substantial parts of the work have already been published or are under review for other publications.
• The reviewers undertake to indicate accurately the bibliographic references of fundamental works possibly forgotten by the author. The reviewer must inform the editors of any similarities or overlaps of the manuscript with other published works.
• In the event of a conflict of interest and disclosure during the peer review process, it should be considered confidential and may not be used for personal purposes.
• Reviewers will only examine a manuscript if there are no conflicts of interest.
• Editors have in their hands the power to authorize or deny the publication of a work.
• The journal's editorial group is committed to ensuring the selection of the most qualified and scientifically specialized reviewers to issue a critical and expert assessment of the work.
• The editors of GénEroos will evaluate the articles submitted for publication only on the basis of the scientific merit of the contents, without discrimination of race, creed or ideological tendency, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, nationality.
• The journal GénEroos undertakes not to use the contents of articles submitted for publication in its research without the written consent of the author.
• With regard to timing, the editorial coordination and the authors are fully responsible for complying with the time limits for the revisions and publication of the accepted papers, to ensure a rapid dissemination of their results, within the deadlines and forms established by the regulations previously established by the journal GénEroos.
• In the event of plagiarism and/or any research malpractice in an article already published in GénEroos, the Editorial Committee of the journal will initiate an authorship claim procedure in accordance with the Code of Ethics of the journal and with attention to the guidelines and cases set forth in the Committee on Publication Ethics.

(*) Note: To develop this Code of Ethics and Deontology of the journal GénEroos, the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), a United Kingdom institution founded in 1997, which seeks to establish a guide of good practices for editors of scientific journals, were taken as a basis