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Changes to this privacy policy

Constructivist Foundations may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. This policy is effective from 24 May 2018.

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Editorial policies

Editors should ensure that published articles conform to the community standards as described below, aiming to promote and support ethical practices in publishing. Please make sure to have carefully read these policies before submitting your manuscript.

Authorship

Criteria of authorship: Each author is expected (a) to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; or have drafted the work or substantively revised it; and (b) to have approved the submitted version and any substantial revision that involves the author’s contribution; and (c) to have agreed both to be personally accountable for the author’s own contributions and to ensure that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even ones in which the author was not personally involved, are appropriately investigated, resolved, and the resolution documented in the literature.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section at the end of the publication before the References section.

Ethical aspects

Research involving human participants, human material, or human data, must have been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/
Experimental research on vertebrates or any regulated invertebrates must comply with the outlines provided by the Basel Declaration, http://www.basel-declaration.org/basel-declaration/

Submission of manuscripts

Submission of a manuscript to Constructivist Foundations implies that all authors have read and agreed to its content and that the manuscript conforms to the journal’s policies.
All publications must cite appropriate and relevant literature in support of the claims made. Excessive and inappropriate self-citation is strongly discouraged.
Before submitting and while reviewing is still in progress authors must not post their submitted manuscripts (nor any draft versions of it) to any public preprint servers (including websites such as academia.edu and ResearchGate), nor on authors’ or institutional websites.
Any manuscript submitted to Constructivist Foundations must be original and the manuscript, or substantial parts of it, must not be under consideration by any other journal.
All submitted manuscripts must include a declaration of good scientific practice and against (self-)plagiarism.
Authors should be aware that replication of text from their own previous publications is self-plagiarism, and in some cases is considered unacceptable.

Conflicts of interest / competing interests

Constructivist Foundations requires authors to declare all competing interests in relation to their work at the end of their submitted manuscripts listing all competing interests (financial and non-financial). Where authors have no competing interests, the statement should read “The author(s) declare(s) that they have no competing interests.”

Peer review processes

All material submitted for publication in Constructivist Foundations undergoes thorough reviewing drawing on in-house and external experts.
Editors will treat all manuscripts submitted to Constructivist Foundations in confidence. Reviewers are required to respect the confidentiality of the peer review process and not reveal any details of a manuscript or its review, during or after the peer-review process, beyond the information released by the journal. If reviewers wish to involve a colleague in the review process they should first obtain permission from the journal.

Allegations of misconduct

Constructivist Foundations takes seriously all allegations of potential misconduct including non-ethical research involving humans, data falsification and fabrication, and plagiarism. In cases of suspected research or publication misconduct, it may be necessary for the editor to contact and share manuscripts with third parties, for example, the authors’ institution and ethics committees.

Post-publication corrections

Changes to a published article that affect the interpretation and conclusion of the article, but do not fully invalidate the article, will be published on the article’s web page. In no circumstances will Constructivist Foundations alter the (electronic) content of a publication after the publication date.

Complaints and appeals

Authors who wish to appeal an editorial decision should submit a formal e-mail of appeal to the editor-in-chief at editor/at/constructivist.info.
Constructivist Foundations remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in institutional affiliations.

Changes to these policies

Constructivist Foundations may change these policies from time to time by updating this page. This policy is effective from 24 September 2020.

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