Our journal Areté follows the essential model of publishing papers in a peer-reviewed journal.

Standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parties involved in the act of publishing (the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer and the publisher) are to be necessarily agreed upon.

Our ethical statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

 

Publication decisions

The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.

The Editor-in-Chief may be guided by the policies of the journal's Editorial Board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play

Under every circumstance, the editor evaluates the manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political beliefs of the authors.

 

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

 

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

 

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer reviewing assists the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board in making editorial decisions and through editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

 

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse herself from the review process.

 

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as a confidential document. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as expressly authorized by the editor.

 

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

 

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published material that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, commentary, or argument has been previously published should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

 

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not evaluate manuscripts with respect to which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships, or connections with any of the authors or institutions connected to the papers.

 

Duties of Authors

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works and, if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

 

Acknowledgement of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

 

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception and written production of the research submitted.

 

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published or submitted work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor and cooperate with the editor to amend the error.

Editor-in-Chief