Research Integrity

Publication Ethics

Incontri is committed to upholding the highest standards of quality and integrity in the publication of its articles.

The editors will take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. In no case shall this journal or its editors encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.

Incontri adheres to the best practices in the ethics of scholarly publishing stated in the COPE’s (Committee on Publication Ethics) Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for all parties involved: Authors, Editors, Reviewers, and the Publisher.

The Editorial Board of Incontri undertakes to publish all corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies as soon as possible if and when they are required.

Peer review

Incontri guarantees a transparent editorial process, carried out using the double blind peer review system. The double blind peer review process is applied to articles and review-articles, but not to features, reviews or notes. These are directly evaluated by the editorial board without hiding the identity of the author.

Archiving

To ensure permanency of all publications, this journal utilises Portico to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration.

This journal is registered with SHERPA/RoMEO to ensure that the license terms and self-archiving policy of the journal is clear.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Website Images

This website contains several free of use images and materials. Every effort has been made to trace rights holders, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers would be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

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