Ethics policy

QUADERNS DE FILOSOFIA makes a commitment to the academic community by ensuring the ethics and quality of its published articles. As a benchmark, our journal uses the Code of Conduct which, for scientific journals, is defined for editors by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

In compliance with these best practices QUADERNS DE FILOSOFIA has an arbitration system that is followed for the selection of articles as well as the evaluation criteria to be applied by the anonymous, external peer-reviewers. QUADERNS DE FILOSOFIA keeps these criteria current, based solely on the scientific importance, the originality, clarity and relevance of the presented article. Our journal guarantees the confidentiality of the evaluation process at all times: the anonymity of the reviewers and authors; the reviewed content; the reasoned report issued by the reviewers and any other communication issued by the editorial, advisory and scientific boards as required.

Research misconduct
QUADERNS DE FILOSOFIA declares its commitment to the respect and integrity of work already published. For this reason, plagiarism is strictly prohibited and texts that are identified as being plagiarized, or having fraudulent content, will be eliminated or not published in QUADERNS DE FILOSOFIA. 

Other forms of misconduct, such as affiliation misrepresentation, using third-party material without permissions, citation manipulation, peer review manipulation, etc., will be also checked for and penalized.

The journal will act as quickly as possible in such cases. In accepting the terms and conditions expressed by our journal, authors must guarantee that the article and the materials associated with it are original and do not infringe copyright. The authors will also have to warrant that, in the case of joint authorship, there has been full consensus of all authors concerned and that the article has not been submitted to, or previously published in, any other media.