Ethical guidelines
Boletín de Antropología of the University of Antioquia adopts the ethical standards and commitments stipulated by the University’s Journal System. Authors, editors, and reviewers must consent to these guidelines to ensure transparency in the editorial process. By submitting or receiving an article, the author and/or reviewer agrees to the following policies:
Editors’ Responsibility
- Confidentiality: Editors will take necessary measures to ensure that personal information of authors, reviewers, and others involved in the editorial process remains confidential. Manuscript content will remain confidential until publication.
- Impartiality in peer review: Boletín de Antropología follows an established peer-review process published on its website. Editors must ensure that reviewers are experts in the subject and methods of the manuscripts, preferably external to the University of Antioquia and the authors’ institutions, to avoid conflicts of interest. The process must be free from ideological, gender, racial, religious, political, and/or geographical bias.
- Transparency: The journal’s website provides information on editorial process guidelines: frequency, authorship and submission rules, editorial policies, and editorial team contact. It also outlines actions for detecting and addressing plagiarism.
Authors’ Responsibility
- Authorship and originality: Authors must meet the authorship criteria specified in the journal's guidelines. By identifying themselves as authors, they take full responsibility for the manuscript’s content and must ensure third-party or self-authorship rights are respected.
- Multiple submission: Manuscripts must not be under review elsewhere or previously published, in whole or in part, in any language.
- Transparency: Authors must handle data rigorously—authentic, not copied, fabricated, or manipulated. They must also follow the journal’s formatting and submission guidelines.
Reviewers’ Responsibility
- Objectivity: Reviewers will provide an opinion on the manuscript and advise the editor on its approval or rejection. Their assessment must be fair, unbiased, objective, and transparent.
- Conflict of interest declaration: Reviewers must notify the editor if they have any academic, economic, personal, or other conflicts that may affect their evaluation.
- Confidentiality and timeliness: Reviewers must keep manuscript content confidential and use it only for review purposes. They must submit their evaluations within the established timeframe to avoid editorial delays.
- Transparency: Reviewers must report ethical issues (e.g., plagiarism, self-plagiarism, data manipulation or falsification, biases) to the editors.
Protocol for Ethical and Editorial Conflicts
- Complaints and appeals management: Boletín de Antropología will address well-founded complaints regarding editorial decisions or ethical concerns following COPE guidelines.
- Conflict of interest: Authors, editors, and reviewers must declare any potential economic, academic, institutional, or personal conflicts of interest.
- Post-publication discussion and corrections: The journal promotes post-publication academic discussion and follows COPE guidelines for retractions, addenda, errata, and corrigenda.
- Misconduct identification and handling: Suspected misconduct (plagiarism, falsification, data manipulation, undeclared conflicts) should be reported to the Editor, who will confidentially follow up. COPE guidelines will be followed, including right of response and editorial committee consultation. Corrections, retractions, or expressions of concern may be issued as needed, ensuring transparency and academic rigor.
