Publication ethics policy

In order to ensure a harmonious relationship between the parties involved and guarantee the quality of the contents, SOCIETY & TECHNOLOGY urges authors, reviewers, as well as the members of the Editorial Committee and the Scientific Committee, to maintain standards of intellectual and scientific integrity.

Obligations of the Editor:

  • Consult the Editorial Committee to resolve problems related to the journal's editorial policy.
  • To give an official certificate to the reviewers for each opinion issued.
  • To take care of the validity of the journal's legal records.
  • Ensure that the publication process complies with copyright regulations.
  • Manage the material and human resources before the corresponding institutions for the proper functioning of the journal.

Duties of the Editorial Committee:

  • To select and assign the reviewers of the papers received by the journal, based on their experience as researchers of the corresponding subject matter.
  • To finally accept or reject the proposal of authors for the journal.
  • Communicate to the authors the results of the evaluation process to which the work received by the journal has been submitted.
  • Keep the identity of the reviewers confidential.
  • Reject those collaboration proposals that are published in other printed or electronic journals, as well as those that constitute total or partial plagiarism.
  • Carry out a basic review of the papers received before sending them for external review and notify the authors of this decision.
  • Propose initiatives that lead to an improvement of the journal in its different aspects: quality, visibility, presentation.
  • To assist in the editing process.

Obligations of the reviewers:

  • Declare and explain, if any, a conflict of interest to make their opinion.
  • To treat under terms of confidentiality the text whose review has been assigned to them.
  • Maintain secrecy of their participation as reviewer even after the work has been published.
  • Not to transfer their role as reviewer to other researchers.
  • Issue their verdict according to the merits and/or weaknesses of the assigned text, based on the opinion form available to them.
  • Send the results of their evaluation within the period established by the journal.
  • Do not quote or copy the text entrusted to them.
  • More information about the process in the peer review section.

Obligations of the authors:

  • Send unpublished collaborative proposals, which are not in other editorial processes.
  • Follow the Rules for publication that SOCIETY & TECHNOLOGY stipulates.
  • Correct, expand or improve their texts, once they have been accepted for publication, taking into account the reviewers' comments.
  • Send corrections of your texts within the period requested by the journal.


SOCIETY & TECHNOLOGY considers the following behaviors unacceptable:

  • Plagiarism: failure to cite or otherwise acknowledge in any writing, essay, exercise, written exam, project, practical work submitted for grading, of ideas, phrases or sentences taken from another source such as a published text, someone else's work, internet materials unless authorship is obvious from the context. More on this can be found in our plagiarism policy.
  • Self-plagiarism: the submission of the same or substantial parts of the same work in more than one graded exercise without the explicit permission of the professors concerned.
  • Submission of another's work: submission of work as one's own when it has been prepared by or commissioned from another.
  • Cheating: giving, receiving, assisting, or making unauthorized use of information from any written source, another person, written work of another, or any other source during an examination.
  • Falsification of a paper: falsifying or tampering with information, evidence or other material on an examination or paper to be graded.
  • Unallowed collaboration: the participation of third parties, whether graded or not, in the preparation of the paper or papers to be graded.

Ethical oversight

When describing experiments on human subjects, the authors should indicate whether the procedures performed followed the ethical standards of an institutional or regional committee on human experimentation, and in accordance with the World Medical Association and the Declaration of Helsinki. The authors should also send the informed consent form used for the study as an appendix. When animal experiments are described, it should be indicated whether the guidelines of a Committee or Council on the Care and Use of Experimental Animals were followed.

More ethics details

For any additional guidance, the reader, author or reviewer should know that the journal is guided by COPE's guidelines for ethical discernments in publication. 

If you have questions regarding our publication ethics policy or would like to report an event pertaining to ethics in our publication, you may write to eespinoza@institutojubones.edu.ec.