Policies Good Practices

Revista Tangram bases its editorial policies on internationally recognized ethical and scientific principles, following the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), FAPESP, CAPES, CNPq, and other national and international regulatory bodies. The aim of these guidelines is to ensure academic integrity, transparency, impartiality, and responsibility in the editorial process and publications.

Below are the practices that Revista Tangram considers as good practices and those the journal does not endorse.

Good Practices

  1. Respecting the originality and authorship of submitted works, ensuring all content is original and properly credited.

  2. Declaring all potential conflicts of interest by authors, reviewers, and editors.

  3. Ensuring confidentiality throughout the submission and review process, except when explicitly authorized in the context of open science.

  4. Guaranteeing institutional and geographical diversity and representation of authors and reviewers, avoiding editorial endogamy.

  5. Strictly adhering to the principles of peer review, ensuring impartiality, confidentiality, and scientific rigor in editorial decisions.

  6. Correcting the scientific record when necessary through errata, retractions, or expressions of concern, with full transparency.

  7. Encouraging the publication of research data in open repositories, when appropriate, promoting open science.

  8. Ensuring editorial decisions are based solely on academic merit, without discrimination based on nationality, gender, ethnicity, religion, or institutional affiliation.

  9. Recognizing and properly valuing the work of reviewers, respecting their anonymity when applicable.

  10. Complying with national and international laws regarding copyright, personal data protection, and scientific integrity.

Practices that Revista Tangram does not endorse

  • Simultaneous submission of the same manuscript to more than one journal.

  • Plagiarism, self-plagiarism, fabrication, or manipulation of data and results.

  • Inclusion of individuals as authors who did not make significant contributions to the research (gift authorship) or improper exclusion of rightful authors.

  • Manipulation or coercion of reviewers, editors, or other authors for personal or institutional gain.

  • Excessive endogamy, characterized by a concentration of publications from authors of the same institution, group, or editorial team.

  • Inappropriate fragmentation of research results into multiple publications (salami slicing).

  • Violation of anonymity in the peer review process, except when foreseen and authorized.

  • Neglecting the correction of errors identified after publication.

  • Any form of discrimination, harassment, or unethical behavior within the editorial process.

  • Deliberate omission of conflicts of interest that may compromise the review or publication process.

Revista Tangram thus reaffirms its commitment to editorial excellence, academic ethics, and the promotion of an honest, equitable, and transparent editorial environment, contributing to the reliability and credibility of the published science.