Peer review guidelines
- Experts will only accept manuscripts on which they have sufficient scientific competence to evaluate.
- Experts must refuse evaluating manuscripts if they cannot abide by the established deadlines.
- Experts must declare potential conflicts of interest.
- Experts must respect the work of the Author, refraining from correcting the text directly, using, for example, the track changes tool.
- Experts must not appropriate data from the text to be published for their own benefit or that of third parties.
- Experts must be objective and constructive in their reviews, without vexatious or demeaning comments, evaluating only the scientific merits of the text, without the influence of considerations about race, religion, nationality, gender, hierarchies, political ideology, institutional affiliation, or age bracket.
- The evaluation should focus exclusively on theoretical and methodological issues; quality of the analysis; relevance and adequacy of the selected sources and data; logical development of the arguments; structure, coherence and clarity of the text; and scientific innovation of the submission.
- The process must remain confidential, from the beginning and until after its closure.
- Experts will fill out the form sent by CIDEHUS with a complete, constructive, and reasoned assessment of the submission.
- If they detect any case of plagiarism, falsified data, or significant similarities with any published text or submitted text of which they are aware, the experts will inform Publicações do CIDEHUS about it, as well as in the case of improper and unflagged manipulations made using Artificial Intelligence or other means.
- The same should be done if other ethical or deontological problems are found.
