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Editorial Policy
- General Obligations and Responsibilities of Editors
- Relations with readers
- Relations with Authors
- Relations with reviewers
- Human and Animal Rights
- Registration of Prospective Clinical Trials
- Animal Experiments
COPYRIGHT AND REPRODUCTION RIGHTS
CLARIFICATION, CORRECTION AND/OR RETRACTION POLICY
EDITORIAL ETHICS POLICY
The publication of papers in peer-reviewed journals is an essential component for the development of a coherent and respected knowledge network. It is a direct reflection of the work quality of authors and institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method.
Therefore, agreeing on the standards of ethical behavior expected for all parties involved in the act of publication is essential, namely: authors, the journal editor, peer reviewers, associate editors and the association that sponsors or owns the journal.
General obligations and responsibilities of the Editors
As the highest authorities of the Journal, the editors of the Colombian Journal of Gastroenterology commit to comply with the following responsibilities: to strive to meet the needs of readers and authors; to constantly improve the quality of the journal; to ensure the quality of the contents published in the journal; to ensure freedom of expression; to maintain the academic integrity of the journal contents; to prevent commercial interests from influencing intellectual standards; to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when necessary.
Relations with readers
Readers must be informed about who has funded the research and about the role of the funding institution in the research.
Relations with authors
The Colombian Journal of Gastroenterology is committed to ensure the quality of the contents it publishes by explicitly stating its objectives and standards, as well as the objectives and standards of its different sections. Editors' decisions regarding the acceptance or rejection of a paper for publication are based solely on its relevance, methodological quality, originality, and expository clarity, as well as on the relevance of the study in relation to the editorial scope of the Journal. The Journal includes a description of the processes implemented in the peer review of all papers submitted to the Journal, and is committed to record and explain any significant deviation from these processes (if any). To this end, the Journal has made available a “Guidelines for authors” document in which authors are informed about all the requirements they are expected to meet for submitting a paper to the journal. These guidelines are updated regularly. Authors have the right to appeal editorial decisions. Editors shall not change their decision regarding the acceptance of submissions, unless irregularities or extraordinary situations are detected. Likewise, any editorial decision that has been already made and informed shall not be affected by any change in the membership of the editorial team, except in cases where serious circumstances arise.
Relations with peer reviewers
The Colombian Journal of Gastroenterology has made available a guide for peer reviewers that describes all the requirements and tasks they are expected to comply with. This guide is updated regularly. The identity of peer reviewers is concealed and protected at all times by the editorial team of the Journal in order to guarantee their anonymity.
Human rights
The Colombian Journal of Gastroenterology requires that all studies involving human beings strictly comply with the Ethical Principles for conducting medical research involving human beings established by World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki, last updated in 2013. In this sense, to be considered for publication, any work involving human beings submitted to the Journal must has been approved by a Research Ethics Committee of the institution or institutions where it was conducted and, when required, it must be clearly stated that informed consent was obtained from the people participating in the study. The Journal reserves the right to ask authors to provide a copy of the minutes or documents in which the study was granted ethical approval, or, in some cases, the informed consent forms signed by the individuals included in the study.
Registration of Prospective Clinical Trials
The Colombian Journal of Gastroenterology adheres to the policies of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ICMJE on the registration of clinical trials. In order to be considered for publication in the Journal, any prospective study assessing interventions in humans must include the registration number of the research protocol in any of the Clinical Trials Registries accepted by the WHO and the ICMJE. It should be noted that the protocol registration must have been carried out prior to the recruitment of subjects. The registration site must be also stated.
Animal Experiments
In case of studies conducted in animals, they must follow the principles set forth in the International Guiding Principles for Biomedical Research Involving Animals by the Council for International Organization of Medical Sciences: CIOMS, an organization established jointly by the WHO and UNESCO. Also, if the research was conducted in Colombia, it must comply with the provisions of Resolution No. 008430 of October 4 1993, issued by the Colombian Ministry of Health, whereby scientific, technical and administrative standards in health research are established, in particular Section V, which explicitly refers to biomedical research in animals, and the provisions of Law 84 of 1989, whereby the National Animal Protection Statute is adopted. Authors must specify the guidelines or regulations that were followed to ensure the protection of animals used in the experimentation process.
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
The Colombian Journal of Gastroenterology is an Open Access journal: papers published by it can be read and downloaded immediately and permanently free of charge.
All contents of the journal are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). By making a submission to the Journal, authors assign their copyrights and the right of first publication of their work to the Journal, which is simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. This license allows third parties to copy, distribute and include the article in a collective work, as long as there is no commercial purpose, the article is not altered or modified, and the original work and its first publication in this journal are duly cited.
ANTI-PLAGIARISM POLICY
Definition of plagiarism
Plagiarism is defined as presenting the work of another person or people as one's own work. This includes copying or reproducing it without acknowledging (citing) the source.
Plagiarism involves:
- Using choice phrases or sentences exactly as they were used in the original document or paraphrasing them very closely without citing the source.
- Using texts downloaded from the Internet
- Using statistical data or facts collected by other person or source
- Copying or downloading figures, photographs, images, or diagrams without citing the respective sources
- Copying a colleague's or student's notes or essays
- Copying the author’s or authors’ own notes presented in a text, tutorial, video or lecture, and that contain direct quotations
Plagiarism can be intentional (dishonest plagiarism) or unintentional (negligent plagiarism).
Plagiarism policy of the Colombian Journal of Gastroenterology
Authors should bear in mind that:
- Copying verbatim texts, tables or illustrations from any source (journal paper, book, monographs, thesis, the Internet / any electronic media or any other published or unpublished material) and including them in the paper as own content is considered plagiarism.
- Listing the source of the copied contents in the 'References List' does not absolve authors of plagiarism.
- If some lines of text from any source are to be reproduced in the paper, "the author" and "the source" must be clearly stated in the text where included. These lines must be in italics and in quotation marks. In case of a whole paragraph, it must also be slightly indented. To reproduce large sections of text, permission to do so must be obtained from the copyright owners in writing, and it must be sent to the Journal.
- Likewise, to reproduce tables or illustrations, permission to do so must be obtained from the copyright owners. A copy of the permission letter must be sent to the Journal. The source must be clearly cited and acknowledged below the table or illustration as requested by the copyright owners.
Prevention of plagiarism
The Colombian Journal of Gastroenterology fully rejects plagiarism practices and uses the Ithenticate plagiarism detection software for its detection. This program compares the contents of the paper with a database of publications and generates a similarity report, highlighting the percentage of overlap between the paper and published material. Instances of content overlap are analyzed in detail to identify suspected plagiarism cases in accordance with the editorial policies of the journal.
COPYRIGHT AND REPRODUCTION RIGHTS
Authors agree to assign to the Colombian Journal of Gastroenterology the copyright of articles published in the Journal. A formal permission to reproduce parts (tables or illustrations) of articles published in the journal shall not be required, as long as the source is properly cited and the reproduction has no commercial purposes.
All contents published in the Colombian Journal of Gastroenterology are protected by national and international intellectual property rights. Any material published in the Journal may be shared, copied and redistributed, as long as the source is properly acknowledged, yet the material cannot be used for commercial purposes. The reproduction or distribution of modified, combined or transformed contents, by any means, whether mechanical or electronic, without the written permission of the Editor is not allowed.
The opinions expressed in the articles are those of their authors and do not necessarily coincide with those of the editors of the Colombian Journal of Gastroenterology. Diagnostic or therapeutic suggestions including the choice of certain products, dosage and methods of use are based on the experience and criteria of authors.
The journal promotes and allows post-publication debate through Letters to the Editor.
ARCHIVING POLICY OF THE JOURNAL
The Colombian Journal of Gastroenterology has an Open Journal Systems website (OJS in SaaS cloud) and it is committed to the long-term digital preservation of its contents by preserving them in Pórtico.
In addition, articles published in the Journal are indexed and deposited in several digital archives around the world to ensure long-term digital preservation. These digital archives include:
- SciELO
- Redalyc
- Redib
CLARIFICATIONS AND CORRECTIONS POLICY
The Colombian Journal of Gastroenterology publishes corrections or retractions following the 2019 version of the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), available at https://publicationethics.org/guidance. Retraction is a mechanism that allows making corrections in the literature already published and warning readers about articles that have wrong contents or data that make their findings and conclusions unreliable. Unreliable content or data may be the result of honest errors, naive mistakes, or research misconduct.
Retractions may be used to warn readers about duplicate publication, plagiarism, peer review manipulation, unauthorized reuse of material or data, copyright infringement or other legal issues (e.g., defamation, privacy issues, illegality), unethical research, and/or failure to disclose an important competing interest that would have unduly influenced the interpretations or recommendations made.
The Editorial Committee shall consider retracting a paper if:
- There is clear evidence that findings are unreliable.
- It constitutes plagiarism
- Findings have been previously published elsewhere without properly acknowledging the original source or sources or informing the editor about it, and without having to republish the contents or proper justification explaining the situation (i.e., cases of redundant publication)
- The article includes contents or data without having been authorized to use them.
- Copyright has been infringed or there is some other serious legal issue (e.g., defamation, privacy issues)
- The article reports unethical research
- The paper has been published solely on the basis of a compromised or manipulated peer review process.
- Authors did not disclose a significant competing interest or conflict of interest that would have unduly affected the interpretations of the paper.
The Colombian Journal of Gastroenterology accepts comments and opinions dissenting from any contents published by it. It also accepts justified retractions made by authors, and shall promptly correct typographical or other errors that may have been made in the publication process of an article.
ADVERTISING POLICY
The Revista Colombiana de Gastroenterología publishes product notices related to the specialties of Gastroenterology, Digestive Endoscopy, Coloproctology and Hepatology. All advertising material must be approved by the Editor and the editorial committee before its publication in the magazine. The advertising displayed in the magazine does not affect in any way the decisions made by the editorial committee. The editorial committee reserves the right to reject any type of advertising material that it considers inappropriate and contrary to the philosophy of the magazine and good clinical and ethical practice of medicine and its specialties. Once any advertising has been implemented on the journal's page, it will be withdrawn by decision of the editorial committee or at the request of the Asociación Colombiana de Gastroenterología (ACG). Editorial decisions are completely independent of and cannot be compromised by any type of sponsor or marketing decisions.
