Data Availability Policy

Geograficando  promotes the transparency and reproducibility of the published research so that other researchers can replicate the studies described in these articles, either to corroborate or refute the obtained results, under the provisions of the Argentinian National Law No. 26,899 on Open Access Institutional Digital Repositories.

To promote the reproducibility of results, the journal requires authors to make available the data sets used to perform the research described in their articles without restrictions. In case of limitations for ethical or legal reasons, authors shall indicate how other researchers should proceed to access such data.

Any information and research data sent to  Geograficando shall be uploaded and made available in SEDICI, and in the repository of Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), to increase compliance with the FAIR principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (it should be possible to find and access data, which should be located in systems capable of interoperating, and people should be able to reuse them in other investigations).

Authors are encouraged to store data in SEDICI, or any other research data repository (for example, FigShare, Mendeley Data or Zenodo), before sending their contributions to the journal. When the article is submitted, this would allow simply mentioning the URL where the research data are located.

Authors are requested to use formats that maximize data accessibility and reusability (for example, regarding tabular data, using a spreadsheet is suggested). If necessary, it is recommended that, together with the data, they publish the algorithms or pipelines that must be used with the data for their correct interpretation.

 

Digital Preservation

Geograficando uses PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN).

This system allows OJS journals safeguard their contents by permanent archives of journal for conservation and restoration purposes.

Geograficando issues (from 2004 to 2016) were preserved by PKP Private LOCKSS Network (PKP PLN).

 

Indexing

Geograficando  takes part of Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas (CAICYT-CONICET), Catálogo LATINDEX (Nivel 1) -Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal- and Indice de revistas en consolidación AmeliCA. It is included in Dialnet, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journal), ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Science), LatAm (Estudios Latinoamericanos), EBSCO Essentials, Google Scholar and 4P (UNIRED: Proyecto Padrinazgo Publicaciones Periódicas Argentinas), GALE Cengage Learning y  SHERPA/RoMEO. It is also included in Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Directory of Research, EZB Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek and RevistALAS.

 

Ethical Aspects and Conflict of Interest

The publication of Geograficando is the collective result of the work and effort of authors, editors and evaluators who are interested in the development of science for social and cultural development. For this reason, and within the framework of the open access policy promoted by the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, the journal will not charge authors any fee for publication, and articles will be immediately available in Open Access.

The editors of the journal undertake to avoid the existence of any conflict of interest between the actors involved in the production. Any text submitted will be evaluated for its intellectual content, avoiding interference in the process of the authors' ethnic or national affiliation, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, or political philosophy. Similarly, external evaluations that place any personal position on the quality of work will be rejected.

Authors and evaluators are asked to state in advance any relevant conflicts of interest they may have, so that they can be taken into account when allocating evaluations. If any conflict should arise after the publication of the contribution, if necessary, there will be a retraction or manifestation of the fact.

A "conflict of interest" is a situation in which an individual's personal interests diverge from his or her responsibilities for the scientific activities he or she undertakes, whether as an author, reviewer, or member of the editorial board, which may influence his or her critical judgment and the integrity of his or her actions. Conflicts of interest can be:

• Economic: when the participant (author/reviewer/editor) has received or expects to receive money for activities related to the research and its dissemination.
• Academics: when reviewers or editors adhere to a particular methodological or ideological trend in such a way that they may be biased to evaluate the work of others. For this reason they are asked to express themselves beforehand.
• Personal or work relationships: when the participants (authors/reviewers/publishers) have some kind of friendship, enmity or work relationship. To avoid this, editors should take into account funding sources and author affiliation to choose evaluators who do not belong to those specific circles.

 

Plagiarism Policy

The policy of Geograficando is to publish original works, written by those who declare their authorship, and unpublished works, which may not have been previously published in any print or electronic medium.

The journal considers the practices listed and explained below as plagiarism:

• Direct plagiarism  (There is omission of the authorship, what has been taken from another text is not indicated with quotation marks,  changes are made to the text of another and it is presented as original).
• Plagiarism for the improper use of paraphrase.
• Plagiarism with loose quotation marks (there are not indicated with inaccuracy, absence of quotation marks in words and phrases of the original text that are reproduced textually).
• The "self-plagiarism" or recycling fraud (the  appearance of a job is changed and presented as if it were a different job, the indication that the work is being recycled is omitted.

Geograficando implements procedures to avoid plagiarism practices - translations, fragmentation of results or "salami slicing", duplication, among others -:

1. The authors are asked to declare that the article has not been previously published or sent to other journals for evaluation and to declare that the text is original.
2. It is evaluated through reviewing specialists, who are also asked to pay attention to possible indicators of plagiarism, since they are the ones who know the sources and literature on the subject.
3. Geograficando uses iThenticate: Plagiarism detection Software provided by the Universidad Nacional de La Plata through Crossref.

If plagiarism and dishonest declaration are detected, the authors will be notified so that they can make a discharge or withdraw the submission within a period of 10 days. If plagiarism is confirmed, Revistas de la FaHCE will remove the text, indicating in the bibliographic record (if it exists) “Excluded due to plagiarism.”

 

International guidelines

The editors of the journal will consider guidelines and guides that have been agreed upon at the international level to solve the specific problems of scientific publishing practice. The instructions given by COPE | Committee on Publication Ethics will be taken into account. Guidelines from other internationally recognized organizations. Authors, researchers and reviewers are invited to familiarize themselves with the international guidelines linked to ethics in publication, specifically those linked below, in order to avoid faults that could be generated by their ignorance.

 

Copyright Policy

The acceptance of contributions by the journal implies the non-exclusive transfer of the authors' property rights to the editor, who allows reuse, after publication, under the Creative Commons (CC) Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirDerivadasIgual 4.0 Internacional.

The material may be shared (copied and redistributed in any medium or format) and adapted (remixed, transformed, and created into another work), provided that: a) the authorship and the original source of publication (journal, publisher, and URL of the work) are cited; b) it is not used for commercial purposes; c) the same license terms are maintained.

The transfer of non-exclusive rights also implies the authorization by the authors for the work to be deposited in the institutional repositories of the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences (Academic Memory) and the National University of La Plata (SEDICI) and disseminated through the databases that the editor considers appropriate for its indexing, with a view to increasing the visibility of the publication and its authors.

 

 

Financial Support

This site, like all others on this portal, is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences of the National University of La Plata.

The processing of the digital files for migration to OJS (Open Journal Systems) was made possible thanks to the 2012 UNLP Scientific Journal Publishing Support Subsidy Program.

 

 

 

Publisher

Departamento de Geografía
Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Calle 51 e/ 124 y 125 | (1925) Ensenada | Buenos Aires | Argentina
Phone: +54 221 4266671 ext 1135
e-Mail: geograficando@fahce.unlp.edu.ar

 

 

 

Support Contact

Prosecretaría de Publicaciones y Gestión Editorial - FaHCE. UNLP
Phone: +54 221 4236671 ext 1268
e-Mail: publicaciones@fahce.unlp.edu.ar