Ethics and bad practices

Code of ethics

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Forestales adheres to the code of ethics for the actions and performance of personnel involved in this journal’s publication process (editors, editorial committee, authors and reviewers) established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and available at publicationethics.org

Plagiarism detection

In Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Forestales specialized software for plagiarism detection is used. The texts submitted will undergo a screening test before being sent to editorial and academic review; they will be rejected if the percentage of similarity with other published text or available on the internet is over 50%.

If possible plagiarism is reported or detected in a published text, the procedure to follow is the one COPE summarizes in the following flowchart