Scientific Culture Press is committed to maintaining high standards of academic publishing through responsible editorial practices, research integrity, transparency, accessibility, and respect for scholarly contributions. Our publishing policies establish the principles that guide the evaluation, publication, dissemination, and preservation of academic research.
We recognize that scholarly publishing serves an essential role in advancing scientific understanding, encouraging intellectual exchange, and maintaining a reliable record of research. The credibility of academic literature depends on the quality of published contributions and the integrity of the editorial and publishing procedures through which those contributions are evaluated.
Scientific Culture Press currently publishes Revista Cultura Científica, an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research across the basic, social, human, and applied sciences. The journal provides a platform for researchers, educators, scientists, and academic professionals to communicate original findings, develop theoretical perspectives, examine scientific questions, and contribute to the advancement of knowledge.
Our publishing policies are intended to promote fairness, consistency, and accountability throughout the scholarly communication process. They address the responsibilities of authors, editors, reviewers, and publishing personnel while emphasizing the importance of accurate research reporting, independent academic evaluation, responsible authorship, and transparent dissemination.
Scientific Culture Press supports publishing practices informed by internationally recognized principles of publication ethics, including guidance developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). These principles encourage responsible editorial decision-making, the identification and management of competing interests, confidentiality, appropriate responses to research misconduct, and the correction of the scholarly record when necessary.
We believe that responsible academic publishing requires clear procedures, meaningful peer review, appropriate recognition of intellectual contributions, and respect for the rights of researchers and readers. These principles guide our commitment to scholarly quality and professional publishing conduct.
The policies presented on this page describe the general publishing principles of Scientific Culture Press. Authors, reviewers, and readers should consult the official website of Revista Cultura Científica for the detailed requirements governing individual manuscript submissions, editorial decisions, article publication, copyright, and research ethics.
Editorial independence and scholarly quality
Scientific Culture Press recognizes editorial independence as a fundamental principle of credible scholarly publishing. Academic decisions concerning manuscript acceptance, revision, or rejection must be based on the intellectual merit, originality, methodological quality, ethical acceptability, and relevance of submitted work.
The editorial leadership of Revista Cultura Científica is responsible for evaluating submissions in accordance with the journal’s aims and scope, established scholarly standards, and publication ethics requirements.
Editorial decisions must not be improperly influenced by financial considerations, institutional affiliations, commercial interests, personal relationships, or other circumstances unrelated to the academic quality of a manuscript.
Authors should receive fair consideration regardless of nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion, institutional affiliation, political views, geographical location, or other personal characteristics that have no legitimate bearing on scholarly evaluation.
Scientific Culture Press recognizes that the academic quality of research must be assessed in relation to the methods and standards appropriate to its discipline. The journal’s interdisciplinary scope includes different forms of scholarly investigation, such as experimental research, theoretical analysis, computational studies, qualitative research, quantitative investigations, review articles, and methodological contributions.
The evaluation of each manuscript should therefore take account of its research objectives, disciplinary context, methodological approach, supporting evidence, and potential contribution to knowledge.
Editorial responsibilities
Editors are expected to apply the journal’s policies consistently and exercise independent professional judgment when evaluating manuscripts.
Their responsibilities include assessing the relevance and scholarly suitability of submissions, selecting appropriately qualified reviewers, managing conflicts of interest, considering reviewer recommendations, and making reasoned publication decisions.
Editors must protect the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and unpublished research. Information obtained during manuscript evaluation must not be disclosed or used for unauthorized academic, professional, personal, or commercial purposes.
When an editor has a significant relationship or competing interest that could compromise impartiality, the manuscript should be handled by another suitably qualified editor.
Scientific Culture Press supports transparent and accountable editorial practices that distinguish the responsibilities of the publisher from those of the journal’s academic leadership.
Peer-review policy
Revista Cultura Científica follows a single-blind peer-review process. Under this model, reviewers know the identities of authors, while the identities of reviewers remain confidential to authors.
Manuscripts undergo an initial editorial screening to assess their relevance to the journal’s scope, completeness, language quality, basic scientific standards, and compliance with submission requirements.
Submissions considered suitable for further evaluation proceed to external peer review. The editorial team normally seeks assessments from at least two independent reviewers with relevant subject expertise.
Additional reviewers may be invited when manuscripts involve specialized methods, interdisciplinary questions, or conflicting evaluations.
Reviewers assess the significance and originality of the research, the appropriateness of the methodology, the validity of findings and interpretations, the quality of presentation, and compliance with relevant ethical requirements.
Reviewer reports should provide constructive, objective, evidence-based comments that assist editors in evaluating the manuscript and help authors improve their scholarly work.
Following peer review, the editorial team may accept a manuscript, request minor or major revisions, or reject the submission. Where necessary, revised manuscripts may undergo further evaluation.
The final publication decision rests with the journal’s editorial leadership. Reviewer recommendations are advisory and do not replace independent editorial judgment.
Neither manuscript submission nor completion of peer review guarantees acceptance or publication.
Fairness and transparency
Scientific Culture Press supports clear communication of editorial procedures, submission requirements, publication policies, and decisions affecting authors.
Authors should receive appropriate information concerning the status of their manuscripts and any revisions required before publication.
Editorial decisions should be communicated professionally, with sufficient explanation to support an understanding of the outcome.
Where authors believe that a decision involves a significant factual misunderstanding or procedural concern, they may submit a reasoned appeal in accordance with the journal’s established procedures.
Appeals should be considered objectively, and any relevant conflicts of interest should be managed appropriately. An appeal does not guarantee that the original editorial decision will be changed.
The Press recognizes that consistent editorial standards, responsible communication, and appropriate consideration of academic concerns contribute to confidence in scholarly publishing.
Research integrity and publication ethics
Scientific Culture Press considers research integrity essential to the reliability and credibility of published academic knowledge.
Authors, editors, reviewers, and publishing personnel share responsibility for protecting the scholarly record and ensuring that research is communicated honestly, accurately, and responsibly.
Originality and responsible authorship
Manuscripts submitted to Revista Cultura Científica must represent original scholarly contributions and must not be simultaneously submitted to another journal.
Authors are responsible for accurately representing their research, acknowledging the contributions of others, and disclosing relevant relationships between the submitted manuscript and previously disseminated work.
Plagiarism, fabricated or falsified research findings, undisclosed duplicate publication, misleading presentation of evidence, inappropriate image manipulation, and attempts to influence editorial evaluation improperly are inconsistent with the publishing standards of Scientific Culture Press.
Authors must ensure that all individuals listed as authors have made legitimate scholarly contributions and have approved the submitted manuscript.
Honorary authorship, guest authorship, ghost authorship, and other forms of misleading attribution are unacceptable.
Changes to authorship after submission should be justified, documented, and approved in accordance with the journal’s publication ethics procedures.
The corresponding author is responsible for communicating with the editorial office and ensuring that relevant information is shared with the other authors.
Research data and accurate reporting
Scientific Culture Press supports the accurate and transparent reporting of research methods, observations, analyses, and conclusions.
Research manuscripts should include sufficient methodological information to permit reviewers and readers to understand how the investigation was conducted and how the reported findings were obtained.
Authors are expected to preserve appropriate research records and provide reasonable clarification or supporting documentation when requested during editorial evaluation or an investigation into research integrity.
Scientific claims should be supported by genuine evidence. Authors must not fabricate observations, manipulate numerical results, misrepresent statistical analyses, or selectively omit information with the intention of producing misleading conclusions.
Figures, tables, photographs, datasets, and other scientific materials must accurately reflect the information they represent.
Where data cannot be made publicly available because of ethical, legal, contractual, confidentiality, or privacy restrictions, authors should explain the relevant limitations in an appropriate data availability statement.
The journal encourages responsible data management and transparent reporting while recognizing that different academic disciplines may have different requirements concerning data access, documentation, and research materials.
Ethical approval and informed consent
Research involving human participants, clinical information, personal data, educational interventions, interviews, surveys, or other activities requiring ethical oversight must comply with applicable institutional and legal requirements.
Where necessary, manuscripts should identify the relevant ethics committee, approval information, informed consent arrangements, and safeguards used to protect participants.
Research involving animals, biological materials, or other regulated activities must similarly comply with applicable ethical and professional standards.
Scientific Culture Press recognizes the importance of protecting privacy, confidentiality, participant welfare, and the responsible use of research information.
Conflicts of interest and funding
Authors must disclose financial and non-financial interests that could influence, or reasonably appear to influence, the design, conduct, interpretation, or publication of their research.
Relevant interests may include funding arrangements, employment, consulting relationships, patents, institutional responsibilities, professional collaborations, and personal relationships.
Funding sources and grant information must be reported accurately. Where research received no external funding, an appropriate statement should be included.
Editors and reviewers must also disclose competing interests and withdraw from manuscript handling where their impartiality cannot reasonably be maintained.
Responsible citation practices
Scientific Culture Press expects authors to cite relevant scholarly sources accurately and fairly.
References must correspond to genuine publications or other identifiable sources. Authors should verify bibliographic information, including author names, publication titles, dates, volume and issue details, page numbers, and digital object identifiers where applicable.
Citations should support the statements to which they are attached and should not be inserted solely to increase citation counts or create a misleading appearance of scholarly support.
Citation manipulation, excessive irrelevant self-citation, coercive citation requests, and fabricated references are inconsistent with responsible publishing practices.
Artificial intelligence and automated tools
Scientific Culture Press recognizes that artificial intelligence and other computational tools may assist researchers with manuscript preparation, language editing, translation, programming, data analysis, and related scholarly activities.
The use of such tools must not compromise research integrity, confidentiality, originality, or the accuracy of published findings.
Authors remain responsible for all content submitted under their names, including AI-assisted writing, calculations, references, images, analyses, and interpretations.
Artificial intelligence systems cannot be listed as authors. Material use of AI tools should be disclosed in accordance with the journal’s requirements.
Reviewers and editors must not disclose confidential manuscripts to external AI services in a manner that violates the journal’s confidentiality and data-protection requirements.
Handling suspected misconduct
Scientific Culture Press supports the fair and responsible examination of allegations concerning research misconduct or publication malpractice.
Potential concerns may include plagiarism, data fabrication, falsification, duplicate publication, inappropriate authorship, compromised peer review, image manipulation, undisclosed competing interests, or violations of research ethics.
When a concern is raised, the journal may examine the available information, seek clarification from the relevant parties, request supporting documentation, or consult appropriate academic or institutional authorities.
Individuals involved should receive a reasonable opportunity to respond to relevant allegations, and confidentiality should be maintained to the extent appropriate.
Editorial action should be proportionate to the available evidence and the significance of the concern.
Depending on the circumstances, the journal may request revisions, reject a manuscript, seek an institutional investigation, or publish an appropriate post-publication notice.
The purpose of these procedures is to protect the integrity of academic literature while ensuring that ethical concerns are addressed fairly and responsibly.
Open access, copyright, and publication practices
Scientific Culture Press supports accessible scholarly publishing and recognizes the importance of reducing barriers to the dissemination of academic knowledge.
Revista Cultura Científica operates under a Diamond Open Access model, allowing readers to access published articles freely without subscription fees or paywalls.
Under this publishing arrangement, authors are not charged manuscript submission fees, peer-review charges, article processing charges, editorial handling fees, or mandatory publication fees.
The journal’s publishing model is intended to promote equitable access to scholarly communication while preserving independent editorial evaluation and appropriate academic standards.
Publication decisions are not influenced by payments or commercial arrangements, and no author is guaranteed acceptance or accelerated editorial approval in exchange for financial consideration.
Copyright and author rights
Authors retain copyright in their articles published in Revista Cultura Científica.
Authors grant the journal and Scientific Culture Press the non-exclusive publishing rights necessary to publish, reproduce, distribute, communicate, and preserve the final scholarly article in accordance with the journal’s copyright policy.
The journal publishes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
This license permits readers and researchers to copy, share, distribute, reproduce, adapt, and reuse licensed scholarly materials, including for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate attribution is given, the license is acknowledged, and changes are identified where required.
The license supports wider dissemination of scientific knowledge while respecting authorship and the intellectual contributions of researchers.
Authors are responsible for obtaining any permissions required to reproduce copyrighted materials belonging to third parties.
Material included in an article under a separate copyright or licensing arrangement should be clearly identified.
Repository deposits and scholarly reuse
Scientific Culture Press recognizes the importance of scholarly repositories and academic information services in improving access to research.
Under the journal’s CC BY 4.0 licensing arrangements, authors may share and archive their published articles without an embargo, subject to the applicable license terms.
Published research may be deposited in institutional repositories, subject repositories, academic websites, and other appropriate scholarly platforms.
Authors and readers are encouraged to cite the official published version of an article, including its digital object identifier where available, to support accurate identification and scholarly attribution.
Permission to reuse published research does not imply endorsement by the original authors, the journal, or Scientific Culture Press of any subsequent interpretation, adaptation, product, or service.
Publication model and scheduling
Revista Cultura Científica follows a continuous publication model, through which accepted manuscripts are published online after completion of the required editorial and production procedures.
Published articles are organized within one annual volume containing one issue.
This arrangement allows research to become accessible following editorial acceptance, copyediting, typesetting, and final production, without requiring authors to wait for the completion of a conventional issue-based publishing schedule.
The journal maintains its published articles and archives through its official website.
Publication dates, article information, author details, and bibliographic records should accurately reflect the actual editorial and publication history of each contribution.
Scientific Culture Press supports the transparent identification of scholarly publications and the responsible management of article information, including appropriate corrections to publication records where necessary.
Indexing, discoverability, and archiving
Scientific Culture Press recognizes that the discoverability and accessibility of research are important for scholarly communication.
The journal provides publication information and metadata to support the identification and retrieval of scholarly articles through relevant academic information services.
Bibliographic accuracy, consistent publication records, appropriate licensing information, and accessible article files contribute to the reliability and usefulness of scholarly literature.
The journal’s official website provides information concerning its abstracting, indexing, and archiving arrangements.
Indexing and database coverage are determined independently by the organizations responsible for those services. Manuscript acceptance or publication does not guarantee that an individual article will appear in every database or satisfy the requirements of a particular academic evaluation system.
Scientific Culture Press supports responsible management of published content and recognizes the importance of long-term accessibility, accurate article metadata, and appropriate preservation practices.
Corrections, retractions, complaints, and policy updates
Scientific Culture Press recognizes that the responsibility of academic publishing continues after the publication of an article.
Maintaining confidence in scholarly literature requires appropriate mechanisms for correcting errors, addressing ethical concerns, and communicating important changes to the academic record.
Corrections and post-publication amendments
When an error is identified in a published article, the editorial team should assess its nature, significance, and potential effect on the interpretation of the research.
Errors that do not invalidate the principal conclusions may be addressed through a formal correction notice.
A correction should identify the affected publication, explain the relevant error, and communicate the necessary amendment clearly.
Where substantive changes are required, the correction should remain identifiable and appropriately connected to the original article.
Expressions of concern and retractions
An expression of concern may be appropriate when serious questions arise regarding published research but available evidence does not yet permit a definitive conclusion.
A retraction may be necessary when findings are unreliable because of serious methodological errors, fabrication or falsification, unethical research, plagiarism, substantial undisclosed duplication, compromised peer review, or other significant problems affecting the credibility of the work.
Retraction notices should identify the affected publication, communicate the grounds for the editorial decision, and remain accessible as part of the scholarly record.
The purpose of retraction is to protect readers and maintain the integrity of academic literature, rather than to serve solely as a punitive measure.
Where appropriate, the original publication should remain identifiable with its corrected or retracted status clearly indicated, except where removal is necessary for compelling legal, ethical, privacy, or safety reasons.
Complaints and editorial appeals
Scientific Culture Press supports fair and transparent consideration of complaints relating to editorial conduct, publication ethics, scholarly integrity, confidentiality, and other publishing matters.
Authors who believe that an editorial decision involved a substantive error, procedural irregularity, or other legitimate concern may submit a reasoned appeal to the journal’s editorial office.
Appeals should identify the relevant manuscript, explain the grounds for reconsideration, and provide appropriate supporting information.
Complaints concerning possible misconduct or inappropriate editorial behavior should be considered objectively and, where necessary, referred to individuals who are independent of the matter being examined.
The submission of a complaint or appeal does not guarantee a particular outcome, but concerns should receive appropriate consideration under the journal’s established procedures.
Privacy and confidentiality
Scientific Culture Press recognizes the importance of protecting personal information and confidential academic communications.
Information associated with authors, reviewers, editors, manuscript submissions, and publishing administration should be processed responsibly and in accordance with applicable privacy requirements.
Confidential manuscript information must not be disclosed to unauthorized parties or used for purposes unrelated to legitimate editorial and publishing activities.
Personal information should be collected and retained only where necessary for appropriate publishing, administrative, legal, or ethical purposes.
The journal’s separate privacy policy provides additional information concerning the collection, use, and protection of personal information.
Policy review and amendments
Scientific Culture Press may review its publishing policies periodically to reflect developments in scholarly publishing, technological practices, research ethics, legal requirements, and the needs of the academic community.
Any significant changes should be communicated transparently and made available through the appropriate publisher or journal website.
Policy amendments should not be used to misrepresent previous editorial procedures, retrospectively alter publication dates, or remove rights already granted under applicable copyright licenses.
Our objective is to maintain clear, consistent, and responsible publishing policies that support academic integrity and public confidence in scholarly literature.
Further information and contact
Scientific Culture Press encourages authors, reviewers, editors, and readers to consult the official policies of Revista Cultura Científica for detailed information concerning journal-specific publishing requirements.
The publisher’s general policies complement the journal’s established instructions and do not replace the procedures applicable to manuscript submission, peer review, editorial decisions, or publication.
Questions concerning manuscripts, research integrity, editorial decisions, publication ethics, copyright, or article corrections should be directed to the journal’s editorial office.
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Open access policy: https://revistasjdc.com/open-access-policy/
Copyright policy: https://revistasjdc.com/copyrights/
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Scientific Culture Press remains committed to supporting responsible scholarly communication through independent editorial evaluation, ethical research practices, transparent publication procedures, and accessible academic knowledge.
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