Ethical Guidelines

The Brazilian Journal of Information Science: research trends (BRAJIS) supports and follows the principles and standards recommended by COPE (Publications Ethics Committee), an international reference organization in integrity and ethics in scientific publications. Thus, the entire editorial and post-publication process follow the COPE recommendations available at: https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines

The editors and the editorial board are responsible for taking care of the journal's ethical issues. Any complaint or suspicion of misconduct by authors, reviewers or even the editorial team can be sent to the journal's official email (brajis.marilia@unesp.br), which will be analyzed by the editors, based on the COPE Guides.

In cases involving suspicions of misconduct related to the submission, there will be a check by the editors with a view to ensuring the high standard of scientific and ethical rigor and all doubts are clarified or informed to the readers.

In the event of a finding of misconduct on the part of the authors, the article will be removed from the evaluation process, and the journal may, at the decision of the editorial board, refuse to receive future submissions from the authors. If proven misconduct by a member of the editorial team or Ad Doc reviewer, he will be removed from his duties with the BRAJIS.

The evaluation process is based on the merit of the work, according to the guidelines informed on the page “About the journal” and includes checking the similarity of all submissions.

The evaluation must not be influenced, positively or negatively, for personal reasons or those not followed by the journal's guidelines. Opinions are not accepted that are not sufficiently justified or that contain offenses or inappropriate attitudes.

The evaluator is expected to remain anonymous in relation to the evaluation, maintain the confidentiality of the reviewed articles and must also refrain from coercive citation. In case of any conflict of interest, the evaluator must inform the editors before acceptance or during the evaluation process in the form provided in the journal's system. When faced with any irregularity in relation to the article under analysis, the evaluator must inform the editor.

The authors are fully responsible for the content. Regarding doubts related to the inclusion of co-authors, order of names, among others, it is recommended to consult the Guide for authors of COPE and CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy).

The author (s) must declare the existence of a conflict of interest, when applicable, using the corresponding field of the journal's system during the submission process.

BRAJIS informs its readers in the event of corrections, clarifications, retractions, or any modification of the published materials, including their complete withdrawal. For this purpose, as of April 2021, the use of CrossMark was adopted, which is a Crossref initiative, which provides a standard way for readers to find the current version of updated content.

According to the CrossMark proposal, the manuscript, after being published, may undergo minor spelling or formatting corrections, without interfering in the interpretation of the content or in the attribution of credits to the authors. In case the publication needs more significant changes, these changes are informed through the Crossmark logo included in the document file and in the metadata, together with a clarification or retraction note with a specific DOI. In this way the reader will be able to check if the content has been updated, corrected or removed.

In the case of errata, the journal maintains the original document, and at the end of the text, the correction is recorded making reference to the document that published the erratum. When it comes to retractions, the original document will be replaced by a message saying that it was retracted with reference to the original document.