Policies regarding ethics and scientific integrity

Ethical Policies and Scientific Integrity

The editorial team of Sophia Educación (ISSN: 2346-0806), Universidad La Gran Colombia, is committed to the highest ethical standards and adheres to the principles of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), the Singapore Statement on Research Integrity, and the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy).

a) Authorship and Contribution Policies: Individuals are considered authors if they have made a significant contribution according to the criteria of CRediT. Authors must provide: preferred name, institutional email, academic degrees, full institutional affiliation, and an updated ORCID identifier.

b) Plagiarism Policies: Submissions must be original and unpublished. Sophia Educación uses Plagiarism Detector software to screen all manuscripts. If plagiarism is detected during submission, the manuscript will be rejected outright. If detected after publication, the article will be withdrawn and publicly retracted following COPE guidelines.

c) Policy on Data Fabrication, Manipulation, and Plagiarism: The editorial team follows COPE standards to prevent fabrication or deliberate omission of data. Fabrication (making up data) and falsification (manipulating results) are considered serious misconduct and may disqualify authors from future publication with the journal.

d) Authors' Responsibilities: By submitting a manuscript, authors declare under oath that the work is original, that they hold the rights to all included images/figures, and that the manuscript has not been published nor is under consideration elsewhere (no simultaneous submission).

e) Editorial Board Responsibilities: The Editorial Board of Sophia Educación ensures scientific quality in accordance with Minciencias standards. Its duties include guaranteeing impartiality, selecting qualified reviewers, and safeguarding the confidentiality of the peer review process.

f) Reviewers’ Responsibilities: Reviewers must provide objective, critical, and respectful evaluations. They must inform the editor of any conflict of interest or suspected plagiarism identified during the double-blind review process.

g) Complaints and Appeals Handling: Any complaint must be submitted to the journal’s official email. The Editorial Board will assess the case and respond within a maximum of two weeks through a formal resolution.

h) Conflict of Interest Policies: Sophia Educación (ISSN: 2346-0806) requires full anonymity in submission files. Editors and reviewers must refrain from handling manuscripts where personal or professional relationships may compromise objectivity.

i) Data Sharing and Reproducibility Policies: The use of repositories such as Mendeley Data or similar is encouraged to ensure that research data are accessible and verifiable by the scientific community.

j) Ethical Oversight Policies: Research involving humans or animals must include approval from an institutional ethics committee and comply with informed consent protocols.

k) Intellectual Property Policy: Authors retain their copyright. Sophia Educación publishes under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license, allowing sharing and adaptation provided proper attribution is given.

l) Post-publication Discussions and Corrections: Scientific debate is encouraged through "Letters to the Editor." Minor errors will be corrected through errata.

m) Privacy Policy: Personal data collected will be used exclusively for editorial purposes and will not be shared with third parties.

n) Retraction Policy: The journal reserves the right to retract articles involving scientific misconduct or significant errors, in accordance with COPE Retraction Guidelines (2019).