The journal adheres to the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE) principles and good practices for transparency in academic publications.

Policy on falsification, data manipulation and plagiarism

The editorial team, including the editor, authors and reviewers must follow the international ethical standards defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), especially those related to:
1. Fabrication, falsification or omission of data.
2. Plagiarism
3. Redundant, duplicate or fragmented publication
4. Omission of citations and references to sources consulted
5. Use of content without permission or without justification
6. Individual appropriation of collective authorship
7. Changes in authorship
8. Undisclosed Conflicts of interest (CDI)
9. Any and other ethical breach that may arise in the research and publication process.

The fabrication of results occurs when the author makes up ideas and data. Falsification results from data manipulation by the authors. Omission originates when the authors deliberately conceal a fact or information in order to change their research results. Plagiarism occurs when an author presents data created by others as their own ideas. The following are types of plagiarism: direct copying of a text without quotation marks or citing the source, modification of some words in the text, paraphrasing and lack of acknowledgments; self-plagiarism occurs when the same author reuses his own material that has already been published, but without indicating the reference to the previous work. Redundant or duplicate publication refers to the total, partial or altered copy of a work already published by the same author.

In case of suspicion of any misconduct, we will follow the flow charts prepared by COPE in order to determine the corresponding actions

• The authors must manifest the originality and clarity of the article, the veracity of the data, as well as the validity of the study and its relevance regarding the journal's scope.
• They must know the guidelines for authors and comply with them.
• They must state any relevant conflict of interest for all the contributors if there were any.
• When submitting an article, the author must attach a signed document that states that the submitted work is original, unpublished and has not been submitted simultaneously to any other journal for its possible publication.
• They must make the editors aware if any individual must not review the submitted material, every time those requests are reasonable and viable.
• They must know the publications dates of the journal, as well as the deadlines for submission and approval of articles.
• The author can appeal against the editorial decisions.

• The journal, in its peer review process, selects international arbitrators with expertise in the topics following a blind double peer system to guarantee that the review is in accordance with anonymity standards.
• The reviewers must state any possible conflict of interests that might arise from the closeness or hostility against any of the authors. Likewise, if the reviewer identifies the author(s) despite the removal of their names from the manuscript. The arbitrators must declare any conflict of interests and reject the invitation of the editors for evaluating the manuscript when, for example, they identify the authorship of the manuscript, they are academically or family-related, they belong to the same university, department or research group, professional network, research project or any other kind of connection or professional proximity. Given any of these cases, the reviewer must decline the editor's invitations for arbitrating the article.
• They must uphold intellectual rights.
• The arbitrators must review the article within the timeline stated by the journal to follow the stipulated times and pay due diligence to the authors and their works.
• The reviewer must keep strict confidentiality in the assessment of the article and must not divulge its content to any third parties.
• The opinion of the reviewers is vital for detecting the originality of the contents and guaranteeing the scientific and literary quality of the manuscript.
• The assessment reports must have an exhaustive analysis of the manuscript, contrasting the information presented on it, the verification of the scientific literature employed in the text and also present a quantitative and qualitative report to the editors on the suitability of the work for its publication.
• The reviewers must make commentaries on the ethical problems arising from possible inadequate conducts of the publications of the research.

• The editors must guarantee the quality of the material published in the journal.
• They must also select expert peers with knowledge, experience and academic trajectory in the topic without conflict of interests.
• They must uphold intellectual rights.
• Guarantee the confidentiality and anonymity of the authors and reviewers in the process; as well as in every aspect regarding consent and special requirements for research on human beings and in animals.
• Publishing corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies whenever necessary.
• Actively search for points of view of authors, readers, reviewers and members of the committee of other journals of possible ways of improving its publishing processes.
• Complying with the time-frame periodicity declared by the journal for an article that has passed all the editorial stages.
• Identify, select and review the composition of the members of the scientific and editorial committees in accordance with the experience and academic trajectory of its integrants.
• Employ systems for the detection of falsifications as a routine procedure and in those pieces suspicious of plagiarism. For this regard, the journal Ciencias Sociales y Educación employs the Turnitin software to determine the similarity of an article with other documents.