Diseña is committed to the integrity of the academic record in the databases. In case of recognizing bad practices by an author, the publisher will take steps to alert the scientific community.

 

Diseña is always ready to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.

 

EXPRESSION OF CONCERN

 

When the publisher has doubts about the integrity of a published work but has no conclusive evidence for a retraction, he will proceed to stamp his Expression of Concern, informing the databases and indexing systems.

 

The expression of concern will be published in the abstract and at the end of the article.

 

If the integrity of the work is subsequently checked, a note will be issued stating the reliability of the material. Otherwise, the Expression of Concern will be replaced by a retraction.

 

RETRACTION

 

If, after the corresponding inquiry, the published article proves to be fraudulent, either because the results of the investigation are not reliable, because the main findings have already been published elsewhere without proper cross-reference, because the work incurs in plagiarism or because the investigation incurs in ethical faults, the magazine will launch the mechanism of retraction.

 

The retraction will be clearly identifiable to readers and indexing systems. The link to the article will direct the reader to a new post, which will contain the metadata of the same. There, the label "Retracted Article" will appear next to a note that will explain the reasons for the retraction. The PDF of the original article will still be available, but the "Retract Article" tag will appear before the abstract and as a watermark on every page of the electronic version of the paper. It will also appear in the bibliographical reference of the article and in the page of presentation of the article, where also the note that explains the fundamentals of the retraction will be added.

 

In the next issue of the printed edition of the magazine a notice of retraction will be published (in numbered page included in the index).

 

The editor will communicate the retraction of the article to all databases and indexing systems. The reason for the retraction will be clearly expressed.

 

CORRECTIONS

 

If after publication it is detected that an article contains an involuntary error in one of its parts, that the source of a data or argument is omitted, or that the list of authors is incorrect, Diseña can rectify the work through a Correction.

 

 

 

NOTE OF REDUNDANT PUBLICATION

 

If after publishing in Diseña an author publishes the same research or the entire article in another journal without a justification or without the corresponding cross-references, the publisher may issue a Redundant Publication note. Likewise, Diseña can request the second magazine to retracting the article. The note "Redundant Publication" will appear in the electronic version of the article. In the printed version a notice of "Redundant Publication" (in numbered page included in the index) will be published.

 

REMOVAL

 

In very particular cases, an item may be removed from the collection for legal reasons. In that case, the link will direct the reader to the metadata, where the label "Article Removed by Legal Causes" will appear. The text of the article will no longer be available. The printed version will publish a notice of "Article Removed for legal reasons" (in numbered page included in the index).

The editor of the journal will communicate the deletion of the article to all databases and indexing systems that correspond. The reason for the deletion will be clearly stated.

 

 

These guidelines were drafted based on the COPE Retraction Guidelines and the "Guía para el registro y publicación de retractaciones y manifestaciones de preocupación" of SciELO.

 

For more information, see:

 http://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf (COPE Retraction Guidelines)

http://publicationethics.org/files/u2/01A_Redundant_Submitted.pdf (COPE Redundant publications flowchart)