Fraud and Misconduct Policies

Geografia adopts the guidelines of the Code of Conduc and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors Committee on Publication Ethics with regard to ethical behavior and good editorial practices in the academic community. According to the Report of the CNPq Research Integrity Commission (2011), fraud or misconduct is understood as cases of:

1) Fabrication of data: presentation of false data and results;

2) Falsification: manipulation of results, giving them another meaning;

3) Plagiarism: presentation of ideas, texts or data taken from someone else's research as if they were one's own, whether published or not, without due credit;

4) Self-plagiarism: reproduction of texts or text fragments authored by the researcher, already published, without due citation.

The aforementioned practices benefit their authors individually while harming other members of the academic community. Therefore, the magazine understands that such practices correspond to scientific misconduct and are unacceptable, as they delay the advancement of knowledge and undermine the horizontality of relationships between researchers.

 

Originality check

The magazine uses the Turnitin similarity checking platform, through the ithenticate tool, capable of identifying excerpts from works already published in other journals, institutional repositories, news sites or other platforms available on the internet. The use of the software will occur immediately after the initial submission of the manuscript, with the editorial committee being responsible for carrying out the screening that will assess whether the work complies with the journal's standards and policies. A positive evaluation means that the manuscript is ready to proceed to the next stage of the editorial process, Peer Review. A negative evaluation will result in the submission being rejected.

Other forms of fraud and misconduct, such as data fabrication and falsification of results, may be pointed out by editors and evaluators, or even after publication of the article, through formal and substantiated complaints.

The editorial committee will evaluate each case individually when unethical behavior is identified. Details are set out in Ethics Policies and Good Practices and Retraction Policies.