Ethical standards

Code of Ethics

Revista de Derecho Público adheres to the Code of Conduct and Good Practice Committee on Publication Ethics (https://publicationethics.org/resources/translated-resources/espan%C3%B5l-principios-de-transparencia-y-mejores-pr%C3%A1cticas-en)  which provides, in summary:

Duties of the editor:

1. Consider for publication manuscripts submitted, basing the decision solely in the academic and scientific merit of the same, and compliance with editorial rules.
2. .Check the originality of the works received, using iThenticate system (http://www.ithenticate.com/)

3. Adapt the manuscript to the publishing rules, either directly or asking the author to do so.
4. In the case of not meeting the editorial rules or suspected conflicts of interest or academic fraud, the editor should refuse publication of the manuscript.
5. Send the manuscripts accepted for review to external evaluators, ensuring anonymity and confidentiality of the authorship regarding thirds.
6. Conduct at its own initiative or at the request of third parties, appropriate measures to prevent or remedy instances of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, or other types of academic fraud and conflict of interest. In case of conflict, the procedures recommended by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) will be followed.
7. Make the needed clarifications, corrections, amendments, or eventually removing articles to solve the problems identified after the publication of an issue of the magazine. These requirements will be made on the website of the magazine.

8. Maintain constant communication with authors and external reviewers, clarifying the doubts arising in the process of review, evaluation, and publication.

9. Receive and answer inquiries from third parties outside the publishing process.

Duties of external evaluators:

1. Evaluators should make objective reviews of the manuscript subject to analysis. Evaluators may accept the revision of those texts for which they have sufficient competence, experience, and knowledge in order to make their analysis.

2. Evaluators must report potential conflicts of interest to the editor.

3.  In the case of not having the required knowledge or experience necessary to make the evaluation, or if any conflicts of interest arises, external evaluators must reject the revision of the manuscript.

4. Evaluators must maintain the confidentiality of the manuscript during the review process. They may not publish in any way the content of it, without consent of the editor or the author of the manuscript.

5. Evaluators should report within the time allocated by the editor of the comments on the manuscript, which must be founded, as well as the recommendation of publication.

Duties of the author:

1. Authors must submit original and unpublished manuscripts, written in Spanish or English language. "Original and unpublished manuscript" referse to all text that is the exclusive authorship of the persons listed as authors. It is supported as original texts parts of monographs or collective works. The use of third-party material must be used with the authorization of its authors, or under the exceptions contemplated by Law No. 17,336 of 1970, and the corresponding bibliographic references must be made in accordance with the rules for authors of the Revista de Derecho Público. "Unpublished" refers to a text that has not previously appeared in Spanish, whether in full length or long fragments.

2. The article cannot be submitted simultaneously to another journal for evaluation.

3. The authors, by the fact of publishing in the journal, accept the editorial and intellectual property rules of Revista de Derecho Público.

4. The authors must make the corrections requested by the management and editorial team of Revista de Derecho Público.

5. The sources used in the article must be cited accurately and thoroughly, without incurring any plagiarism.

6. The authors must clearly inform in the text they send the sources of funding for their work or the existence of conflicts of interest that could affect the impartiality of the research. 

7. The author will communicate in all cases to the email of the Director of the Journal, Ana María García (agarcia@derecho.uchile.cl) or the Secretary of the same, Felipe Peroti Díaz (fperoti@derecho.uchile.cl).

Deadlines:

The journal undertakes with the authors to comply the following deadlines:

- Preliminary review of the manuscripts received within fifteen days, answering if the work is formally suitable to be evaluated and, consequently, return it to the author for correction or give course to its evaluation.
- Carry out the arbitration process within seven weeks, counted from the time the work is in formal conditions to be evaluated. At the end of this period, the author will be informed whether the article will be published or not, or whether it requires corrections to be published.
- Publish the approved manuscripts, in accordance with the definition of the Editorial Team, within four weeks after their approval or correction or in the following issue.

Liability Policy

The opinions expressed in the articles published by Revista de Derecho Público are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Department of Public Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile.

This Ethics Code has been created following and adapting the recommendation of:

- Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, available at: https://publicationethics.org/resources/translated-resources/espan%C3%B5l-principios-de-transparencia-y-mejores-pr%C3%A1cticas-en