The Editorial Mar Caribe (EMC) Code of Ethics and Good Editorial Practices expresses the commitment to maintaining an ethical, deontological, and transparent publication process. All parties involved—the editor-in-chief, scientific committee, editorial board, scientific advisors, coordinators, editors, authors, external peer reviewers, among others—must accept and follow these guidelines for the governance of the editorial committee.
Goals.
- Ensure quality, integrity and transparency during the editorial process.
- To be a leader in resolving conflicts between the parties involved in the editorial process.
- Assertively address structural inequalities in academia, for greater representation of researchers in the development of research assessment practices.
- Promote the scientific dissemination of research developed by professors from various educational institutions, non-profit and open access.
Ethical principles.
- Quality Principle: Editorial Mar Caribe is committed to following its editorial guidelines and constantly seeking the best available standards for book publishing.
- Open Access Principle: EMC promotes open, free, and immediate access to all its books. EMC adheres to the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of the Center for Open Science (OSF), an open and free platform to support our authors’ research and collaboration. You can access our books through the link: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/42A7S . We also rely on ARAMEO.NET and Knowledge Commons for independent backup of files with persistent identifiers.
- Principle of respect and confidentiality of information: All parties involved in the publication (authors, editors, scientific advisors, among others) must communicate within a framework of mutual respect. EMC declares itself a space free from any discrimination.
- Principle of Authorship: EMC promotes recognition of authorship of publications and requires responsible use of referenced information according to APA, Chicago, and/or Vancouver formats in the updated edition.
- Principle of integrity and transparency: Information about editorial processes is publicly available in the » Editorial Policies » section, ensuring transparency and open access to content. EMC also undertakes to respectfully use the information provided by authors, editors, referees, and others, in accordance with the criteria set forth in the » Privacy Statement .»
- Responsibility of the parties:
6.1 Authors: Must follow the » Guidelines for Authors » published on the website. Authors must declare any conflicts of interest and provide a clear reference and self-reference in their documents. Copyright grants the owner the exclusive right to use the work, with some exceptions, under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license . Authors are responsible for the content of the book published by Editorial Mar Caribe.
6.2 Editor-in-Chief: Ensures compliance with editorial processes, transparency, and ethical principles and is responsible for EMC’s editorial content. Chairs editorial committee meetings. Participates in the final evaluation process for books to be published by ISBN agencies.
6.3 Scientific Advisors: Ensure due process for acceptance, review, submission, and publication, respecting editorial principles, fairness, and impartiality. This clearly demonstrates EMC’s editorial standards and practices.
6.4 Scientific Committee supporting the editor: Ensures and maintains the quality of the documents submitted to EMC. It is the sole body with the right to decide which texts are sent to external peer reviewers. The identity of the authors is unknown to the members of the editorial board, including the editor-in-chief, as well as to the referees. In case of conflict, the members of the editorial board are responsible for the final decision.
6.4.1 Ethics Committee: The publisher’s ethics committee ensures compliance with ethical standards to guarantee high-quality scientific publications, confidence in scientific findings, and that people receive credit for their ideas. It also demands high-quality scientific work that is of interest to the scientific community in Latin America and the Caribbean.
6.5 External peer reviewers: They must comply with the deadlines for document review and approval of the opinion. They evaluate documents objectively and scientifically and base their approval, rejection, or approval decisions on significant changes and re-evaluation. In the latter case, they offer suggestions for improving the evaluated document. They identify possible plagiarism or irregularities in the reviewed text and notify the editor so they can monitor the process. External peer reviewers operate under a double-blind system, and their review services are contracted to international universities under the DORA declaration.
6.6 Editorial Board: Monitors the selection and makes decisions on the content of each essay from submission to publication, ensuring compliance with editorial policy. They identify cutting-edge topics and formulate the call for papers, as well as organize conferences. They also advise the Editor-in-Chief and the Ethics Committee on the quality, dissemination, and bibliographic identification of published essays, ensuring their continued relevance.
Editorial Mar Caribe aligns itself with the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which recognizes the need to improve the way scholarly research output is evaluated. For more information on the policies for evaluating received research, please visit: https://sfdora.org/about-dora/ . The publisher ensures that the visual resources in accepted books comply with the EMC guidelines for authors; and is responsible for their scientific visibility and indexing. This clearly reflects EMC’s editorial standards and practices.
Obligations regarding equality and non-discrimination .
Editorial Mar Caribe faithfully complies with the Peruvian Technical Standard NTP 722.001:2022 on «Gender equality management systems in the workplace» , approved by the National Quality Institute (INACAL) for the Republic of Peru and Law No. 19846: «Approval of the obligations arising from international human rights law, in relation to equality and non-discrimination between women and men, including formal, substantive and recognition equality» in the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; to guarantee equal rights and non-discrimination based on gender between women and men, including formal, substantive and recognition equality, this in relation to the percentage of inclusion of women in the constitution of the Editorial Committee.
Inappropriate editorial practices .
- Plagiarism and self-plagiarism (verified through the service contracted with Plagiarism Detector and Small SEO Tools).
- Undisclosed conflict of interest.
- Simultaneous application of the book draft to another publisher.
- Exclusion of an author from the book presented.
- Publish the names of the external peer reviewers for each proposal received and evaluated.
- Payment for a book published under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.es .
- Book sales once it is published in open access. Research books published by EMC cannot be sold; this is clearly stated to the authors.
Let this » Code of Ethics and Good Editorial Practices » serve as the current policy for the period 2025-2028.