Code of ethics and scientific editorial practices

The Revista Desenvolvimento Social aims to dialogue with the standards of ethical practices in the publication. Therefore, it is recommended to read the code of ethics and conduct presented below:

1. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PARTNERS

Ensure the confidentiality of your assessment, guaranteeing and carrying out the blind peer review;

Evaluate articles with neutrality and academic rigor;
Exercise the role of reviewer as a volunteer, aware of the importance of their collaboration with the journal and science;

Inform editors when they do not feel comfortable evaluating an article due to the thematic distance from the text of their area of ​​study;

Inform possible conflicts of interest that may occur when evaluating an article, whether academic, financial, personal or political, and decline the evaluation;
Not to make any use of the material other than a reading strictly referring to the evaluation;
Do not induce, in their respective opinions, that the authors cite texts authored by the evaluators;
Do not take advantage, under any circumstances, of the evaluator function;
Carry out constructive criticism aimed specifically at the text and content of the articles;
Be aware that the figure of the referee and its practice of blind peer review are the key points for evaluating the quality of the journal's content.

2. AUTHORS' RESPONSIBILITIES

Present, if any, the research funding institution, dedicating a space to it in the acknowledgments, and ensure that the content presented in the texts does not influence the funding institution;
Commit to not falsify and fabricate data, as well as using piracy or plagiarism in the production of their texts;
Set themselves up, as an author, as an ethical researcher and responsible for the content exposed in the produced material;
Guarantee the originality and originality of the texts, including the preprint, submitted for evaluation;
Clearly and correctly identify the authorship of all who carried out the study and the consequent text of the article. Likewise, indicate the co-authorships and their respective collaborations;
Inform possible conflicts of interest that may occur at the time of article submission, whether academic, financial, personal or political;
Be available to correct the literature, if necessary;
Not to practice the manipulation of citations, data and information in order to obtain the intended research result in the material produced;
Do not use self-citation too much. In the same sense, do not use specific references aimed at manipulating impact factors, as well as self-plagiarism;
Check the existence of copyright of the images that will possibly be used in the construction of the text, identifying, whenever used, their authorship and sources.

This code of ethics and scientific editorial practices, committed to integrity in scientific publications, was prepared in accordance with the publishing standards of Editora Unimontes.