Integrity of the author, authorship, plagiarism, fight against plagiarism and misconduct

Integrity of the author. Revista de la Sociedad Química del Perú adheres to the Responsible research publication: international standards for authors [Kleinert S & Wager E (2011) Responsible research publication: international standards for authors. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010. Chapter 51 in: Mayer T & Steneck N (eds) Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment. Imperial College Press / World Scientific Publishing, Singapore (pp 317-28). (ISBN 978-981-4340-97-7)]

In summary:

• The research being reported should have been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and should comply with all relevant legislation.
• Researchers should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation.
• Researchers should strive to describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others.
• Researchers should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarised, and has not been published elsewhere.
• Authors should take collective responsibility for submitted and published work.
• The authorship of research publications should accurately reflect individuals’ contributions to the work and its reporting.
• Funding sources and relevant conflicts of interest should be disclosed.

Authorship. Revista de la Sociedad Química del Perú adheres to the definition of the author of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors ( ICMJE ) and considers that to be an author of the work you must have the following conditions :

1. Have provided substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data for the job; And
2. Have participated in the writing of the work or critical review and have given an important intellectual contribution to the content of the manuscript; And
3. Must have approved the final version to be published; And
4. Assume responsibility in all aspects of the work to ensure that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are investigated and resolved in an appropriate manner. 

Plagiarism. Revista de la Sociedad Química del Perú considers plagiarism as fraud in publication and dishonest behavior, and this is defined as the appropriation of ideas, processes, results or texts of another person without give the corresponding credit.

In addition, as frauds and misconduct are also understood the manufacture (invention of data or results), and falsification (manipulation of research materials, equipment, processes to alter the data or results, as well as the change or omission of data or results).

Revista de la Sociedad Química del Perú does not tolerate plagiarism, fraud or misconduct, which establishes mechanisms to prevent and remedy it:

During the pro editorial review, Revista de la Sociedad Química del Perú avoids the publication of plagiarism, fraud and misconduct using the opinion of peer reviewers and the revision of texts using anti-plagiarism software as computer tools to detect it. Revista de la Sociedad Química del Perú is  Similarity Check participant powered by Ithenticate.
If Revista de la Sociedad Química del Perú detects or is alerted and confirms cases of plagiarism, fraud or misconduct in a published article, the Editorial Committee will proceed according to the guidelines and recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics, actions that could lead to the retraction of the article. ( COPE - http://publicationethics.org/ ) may execute the retraction of the article.