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Conflicts of interest, specific rules of research ethics, confidentiality and plagiarism

Conflict of interests:

The conflict of interest arises in those circumstances in which the primary interest of the research to be published is influenced by interests of a secondary type, such as economic benefits, eagerness to become known, reasons of an ideological nature. Hence, the BCCIOH expresses the ethical standards for publication of research, namely:

Specific ethics and research standards:

(i)           The BCCIOH receives original and unpublished documents that include important results in the different areas of research and disciplines of the Marine Sciences, such as Oceanography, Hydrography, Marine Biology, Engineering of Coastal Environments, Protection and Management of Coastal Resources and Earth Sciences, which have not been published or are in the process of being published in another journal.

(ii)          The manuscripts that apply for publication must be the product of basic, technical, and applied research that makes an original contribution to the development of Marine Sciences in the aforementioned topics. These must be well written, in the third person; francs of grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors, taking care of the good use of the Spanish language.

(iii)         The manuscripts must publish all the data found in the study, without omitting the negative results shown by the application of the methodology.

(iv)         Disclosure of possible conflicts of interest that may exist regarding the research work submitted to arbitration.

(v)          Authors must define the order of appearance in the co-authorship, upon submission of the manuscript to arbitration.

(vi)         The report, if applicable, the statistical methods used.

(vii)        If the submitted manuscript has been previously rejected, the authors are required to consider the suggestions made by the reviewers for the subsequent writing and publication of the article.

Confidentiality and plagiarism:

• The BCCIOH typifies three types of scientific crime, recognized as serious among the international academic community, as fraudulent conduct, according to the US Office for Research Integrity (ORI):

- Forgery: according to the National Science Foundation, it is defined as the manipulation of materials, processes or data to modify results, to achieve an interpretation tailored to private interests.

- Manufacture of data: practice that consists of presenting results of experiments that have not been carried out, or investigations in which statistical methods are used to endorse 'constructed' results.

- Plagiarism: considered a type of scientific fraud for taking as its approaches, methodologies or results, also false authorship. A variant of this fraudulent conduct is 'self-plagiarism', which occurs when the author submits manuscripts with parts of articles already published to arbitration.

Identifying these practices during the peer review process or in the BCCIOH Editorial Committee session disapproves the manuscript, considering it an attack on the intellectual property of the author-researchers.