JOURNAL ETHICS
Siculorum Gymnasium is a scientific peer-reviewed journal, which draws on COPE publications ethics: Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and adopts every single required action against all frauds that may occur during the publication process. Authors, readers, reviewers and referees must know, share and agree on the following ethical principles:
1. Ethical Guidelines for the Scientific Committee
1.1 The Scientific Committee are responsible for accepting or rejecting articles submitted. They can work with the referees to decide.
1.2 The Scientific Committee evaluate articles submitted according to their content, irrespective of the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, or political orientation.
1.3 The Scientific Committee will not disclose information concerning articles submitted to people other than the author, the referees and the editor.
1.4 The Scientific Committee will not use the content of articles submitted for personal reasons, unless the author explicitly agrees.
2. Ethical Guidelines for Peer-reviewers
2.1 By peer-reviewing, reviewers help the Scientific Committee to select articles submitted and may suggest authors some changes to improve their work.
2.2 Reviewers promptly inform the Scientific Committee if they cannot read articles submitted within the fixed deadline.
2.3 Every text to be read must be considered confidential. For this reason, it cannot be discussed with other people without explicit permission from the Scientific Committee.
2.4 Reviewers must be objective and adequately support their claims.
2.5 Each reviewer must report to the Scientific Committee any similarities or overlapping of the received text with other works.
2.6 Confidential information acquired during the peer-review process must be considered private and cannot be used for personal aims.
2.7 Reviewers must refuse to read those articles which may imply a conflict of interests stemming from previous collaboration or competition with the author, the society or the institutions they belong to.
3. Ethical Guidelines for authors
3.1 Authors must provide correct references for the sources mentioned in the article.
3.2 Authors must not publish articles concerning the same research in more than one journal.
3.3 Authors must clearly acknowledge authorship of whoever has been involved and indicate as co-authors those who contributed significantly in the creation, realization and revision of the research on which the article is based. If other people contributed at some stage in the research, their work must be clearly acknowledged.
3.4 If an author detects a mistake or a significant inaccuracy, s/he must immediately inform the Scientific Committee and provide it with all the necessary information in order to make the necessary changes.
