Peer review

Editor Responsibilities

Communication Papers, in line with the recommendations of major international organizations such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) considers necessary and essential to promote ethical publication and observes the following ethical principles throughout the editorial process:

• The editor ensures that manuscripts submitted for publication undergo fair double-blind peer review.

• All information about submitted articles remains confidential until the article is published.

• The Editor is responsible for the content and overall quality of the publication.

• The Editor should publish an error page or make necessary corrections.

• The Editor does not allow conflicts of interest between authors, editors, and reviewers.

• The Editor has full authority to appoint reviewers and is responsible for making the final decision on the articles to be published in the Journal.

• The Editor evaluates manuscripts independently written by the authors’ ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, religious, and political philosophy.

• The Editor’s responsibility is to preserve the anonymity of authors and reviewers during the review process.

• During the review process, the editor should make it clear to reviewers that manuscripts submitted for review are the private property of the authors and this is a privileged communication.

• In some cases, at the editor's discretion, the referees' comments on the article may be sent to other referees who commented on the same theme to enlighten the referees in this process.

Reviewer Responsibilities

Communication Papers, in line with the recommendations of major international organizations such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) considers necessary and essential to promote ethical publication and observes the following ethical principles throughout the review process:

• Reviewers should have no conflicts of interest with the author(s) and/or financial supporters.

• Reviewers should make an unbiased judgment at the end of their evaluation.

• Reviewers should ensure that all information regarding submitted manuscripts is kept confidential and report to the editor if s/he notices any copyright infringement or plagiarism on the author’s part.

• Reviewers should prepare a suitable evaluation report consisting of these values in the manuscript:

• Originality of the manuscript

• The scope of the manuscript

• The methodological approach applied in the manuscript

• The state-of-art of the manuscript

• The relevant literature used in the manuscript

• Findings and discussions and their compatibility with the theoretical and methodological approach.

• Reviewers should provide timely feedback. In that case, he/she should inform the editor and ask him/her not to involve him/her in the review process.

• Reviewers and editorial board members may not discuss articles with other individuals.

​Author’s Responsibility ​& Policy

According to the Uniformity Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), the "author" of a published work is considered to be a person who has contributed significantly to the publication intellectually. In the journal Communication Papers (Media Literacy & Gender Studies) the authors are asked to indicate the degree of contribution of each signing authorship.

Only people who have contributed intellectually to the development of the work should appear on the list of authors—having helped in the collection of data or having participated in some technique are not sufficient criteria to appear as an author. The author of an article must have participated in a relevant way in the design and development of this, as well as to assume responsibility for the contents and, likewise, must agree with the definitive version of the article. In general, to be listed as an author, the following requirements must be met:

• Have participated in the conception and design, or in the acquisition of data, or in the analysis and interpretation of the data of the work that has resulted in the article in question

• Have participated in the writing of the text and in the possible revisions

• Have approved the version that will finally be published.

The journal Communication Papers (Media Literacy & Gender Studies) declines any responsibility for possible conflicts derived from the authorship of the works published in the Journal.

The journal Communication Papers (Media Literacy & Gender Studies) follows the decision tree recommended by COPE in case of a request to change the authorship of a received manuscript or an article already published.

Communication Papers, in line with the recommendations of major international organizations such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) considers essential to promote ethical publication. The authors should follow the steps mentioned below:

• Authors must follow scientific and ethical rules.

• Authors must ensure that the article is original, has not been previously published elsewhere, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, in another language.

• Copyright laws and treaties should be highlighted. Copyrighted material (e.g., tables, figures or large quotations) should be used with appropriate permission and acknowledgment.

• The work of other authors, contributors, or sources cited should be used appropriately and cited in the references.

• All articles must contribute to the field and must be prepared in a specific conceptual, theoretical and methodological framework.

• Funding, data collection, or general supervision of the research group alone does not confer authorship.

• All individuals cited as authors must meet all the criteria listed, and any individual who meets the above criteria may be cited as an author.

• The order of authors' names should be a joint decision.

• All individuals who do not meet the criteria for authorship but have contributed to the study should be listed in the "acknowledgments/information" section.

• All authors should declare any financial relationships, conflicts of interest and competition of interest that have the potential to influence the results of the research or the scientific evaluation.

• If an author identifies a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her published manuscript, he/she has the responsibility to immediately contact and cooperate with the editor for correction or retraction.

• In studies with a human element, it should be stated in the "methods" section that "informed consent" was obtained from the participants and ethics committee approval was obtained from the institution where the study was conducted.

• The moral and ethical responsibility of the authors implies:

- Consistency and reliability in research: must be responsible and legal, carefully crafted, using correct methods of analysis to guarantee the results and properly filed.

- Honesty: without lies and falsifications or data manipulations.

- Original: not published in another country or language, not presented simultaneously to more than one publication without the publishers having agreed to co-publishing pointing in the text, subject to copyright laws identifiable citing primary sources.

- Transparent to sources of research funding, including direct and indirect financial support, provision of equipment or materials, or other support.

- Responsibility: authors should adjust the text to the established publication rules. Must work ast and agile, making corrections. 

• Indications of authorship. The degree of participation in the study will depend on the simultaneous presence of these conditions: intervention in all phases (structure, drafting, and revision), coordination with other authors, and the contribution to the obtaining funds' collection and analysis data. The firm order will be decided consensus and after. The author assumes public responsibility for the content of the article. Investigators with only minor contributions appear in the acknowledgments. The quality of the texts is based on the review process by anonymous peers and the option correspondence with the editor or comments on articles where other professionals are not directly linked to the review process can express their opinions contributing to the recognition of the scientific contributions of the literature.

• The lien is under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license (CC BY 3.0 GB) of Spain.

• This information is an excerpt from Tur-Viñes, Victoria and Fonseca-Mora, María-Carmen and Gutiérrez-San-Miguel, Begoña Ética de la publicación científica: iniciativas y recomendaciones. El profesional de la información, 2012, vol. 21, n. 5, pp. 491-497. [Journal article (Paginated)].The Journal subscribe the protocol of Good Practice of COPE and Wiley (2014).