Ethical standards
The journal follows the majority of standards and guidelines provided by COPE.
The journal’s ethical practice and policy is adapted from those published on the pages of EDP OPEN.
Conditions for submission of a manuscript
Submission of a manuscript implies that the work has not been published and is not submitted for publication anywhere else. Publication must be approved by all Authors.
Research integrity – Plagiarism, manipulation of the publication process, data fabrication and image manipulation
Systematic manipulation of the publication process is defined by COPE as an individual or group of individuals using dishonest or fraudulent practices to
- prevent independent assessment or inappropriately influence peer review outcomes,
- sell or misrepresent authorship, and/or
- publish fabricated or plagiarized research.
Ciência e Técnica Vitivinícola will reject or retract articles suspected of any manipulation of the publication process, and may inform the relevant institution(s) (e.g. an author’s employer) of our concerns.
Ciência e Técnica Vitivinícola does not accept plagiarism in submissions. Plagiarized content will not be considered for publication. If plagiarism is identified, COPE guidelines will be followed.
Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:
- Directly copying text from other sources without attribution,
- Copying ideas, images, or data from other sources without attribution,
- Reusing text from your own previous publications (self-plagiarism) without attribution or agreement of the editor (see the COPE guidelines on text recycling and the text recycling guidance released by the Text Recycling Research Project),
- Using an idea from another source with slightly modified language without attribution.
If plagiarism is detected during the peer-review process, the manuscript may be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after publication, we may retract the paper.
Editors will be vigilant in their evaluation of Ciência e Técnica Vitivinícola submissions and will notify the journal about any plagiarism identified.
In case of doubt, and in order to avoid any forms of plagiarism or text recycling, authors are invited to visit relevant webpages of universities across the world dealing with this topic, as well as the websites of their own institutions if relevant.
Here are a few examples of useful pages:
More information on the topic can be found in COPE’s Guidelines on good publication practice
Peer Reviewing
All manuscripts submitted to the journal are peer-reviewed by a minimum of two independent Reviewers from the Editorial Review Board of the journal. The Reviewers are informed of the necessity to keep the manuscript confidential before acceptance and publication, and their identity will not be disclosed to the Authors. Based on the recommendations of the Reviewers, the Editorial Board decides whether the manuscript is:
- Accepted without modifications
- Accepted, after modifications (depending on a second peer reviewing)
- Rejected
The Editor-in-chief has full authority for acceptance/rejection of the submitted manuscripts. Persons with a conflict of interest towards a submitted manuscript shall declare it and be withdrawn from the peer reviewing of this particular manuscript.
Policies for publication of errata and for article retraction
Despite careful peer reviewing and article production, situations might occur where errata should be published or articles retracted.