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The Renewable Energies, Environment & Power Quality Journal (REE&PQJ), ISSN: 3020-531X, is a free electronic journal edited in Pontevedra (Spain) by the "European Association for the Development of Renewable Energies, Environment and Power Quality (AEDERMACP/EA4EPQ)", Reg.No. 169208, with the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) and CrossRef DOI: https://doi.org/10.24084/reepqjxx.xxx (x=reference-numbers for each volume and paper).

REE&PQJ Statement on Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice

Plagiarism

Plagiarizing involves using words, ideas, or information from a source without citing it correctly. For example:

Plagiarism

Principles of Transparency and Best Practice The members of REE&PQJ are agree with COPE policy and will apply in our decissions the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice and the REE&PQJ Editorial decisions should be based on scholarly merit. They will not be affected by the origins of the manuscript, including the nationality, ethnicity, political beliefs, race, or religion of the authors. REE&PQJ ensure no policies create an exclusionary environment for anyone wanting to engage with the journal and should regularly assess their policies for inclusivity. JIC If the REE&PQJ-Editorial Board, REE&PQJ-Scientific Committee members, or others, identify or suspect about irregularities in reseach or publication ethics, by authors, reviewers of the Scientific Committee or Editorial Board members, the journal investigate it by a Journal Integrity Committee (JIC) of five members, free from suspicion, selected during a EA4EPQ General Meeting and, meanwhile, the REE&PQJ will suspend all the processes of the peer review and publication of the articles.

REE&PQJ Publication Ethics

REE&PQJ Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement is based, in large part, on the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The European Association for the Development of Renewable Energies, Environment and Power Quality (EA4EPQ) expect all parties commit to these publication ethics. The EA4EPQ do not tolerate plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, or other unethical behavior and will remove any manuscript that does not meet the standards included in: https://publicationethics.org/core-practices and in order to ensure a hight quality of the articles the Editor-in-Chief of REE&PQJ to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards and fully withdraw the papers that are not entirely original works. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journal, we use iThenticate/turnitin to check submissions against previous publications.

Privacy Statement

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

The relevant responsibilities of authors, reviewers, and editors are set out below:

Authors Responsibilities

1.The authors must guarantee that their manuscripts are their original work.
2.The authors must guarantee that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.
3.The authors must guarantee that they have written entirely original work.
4.The authors must guarantee that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.
5.The authors must notify us of any conflicts of interest.
6.The authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscript.
7.The authors must report any errors they discover in their manuscript.
8. If the work involves chemical, animals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the authors must clearly identify these in the manuscript.
9. REEPQJ encourage authors to follow SAGER guidelines on sex and gender equity in research, where relevant. Authors shoud use the terms sex and gender carefully.
10. Authors that describe human experimentation must also ensure all data and images are anonymised so no individual can be identified. They should adhere to ICMJE recomendations.

Reviewers Responsibilities

Key questions and decisions

Peer reviewers of the REE&PQ-Scientific Committee should determine if the work is suitable for publication in the journal. If the paper is in scope, the reviewer should consider whether the data presented support the conclusions reached and ensure that the data have not been previously published. In particular, peer reviewers should consider the aims of the research, the methodology used and the results obtained, so that a judgement can be made about the veracity of the conclusions and whether additional research is required. The peer reviewer can recommend publication, rejection or revision and should provide a detailed summary of the findings, including suggestions for improving the work, additional work that might be required for publication and references that should be added.

Ethics

Peer reviewers should check that all work contained within a manuscript adheres to relevant ethical requirements. This includes, but is not limited to, animal experimentation and human cell experimentation. Authors must clearly state that they have received the relevant licences and include these details within their manuscript.

Confidentiality

Peer reviewers of the REE&PQ-Scientific Committee should be aware that, until a paper is published, the data within it is confidential (unless posted on a preprint server). Peer reviewers should also remain anonymous and should not directly contact authors. Any peer reviewer who is found to breach this confidentiality may be removed from the peer reviewer database.

Conflicts of Interest

If a peer reviewer has a conflict of interest in reviewing work from any author on the manuscript (e.g. previous co-authors) they should immediately notify the editorial office and remove themselves from the peer review process.

In summary:
1.The reviewers of the REE&PQ-Scientific Committee must notify us of any conflicts of interest.
2.The reviewers of the REE&PQJ-Scientific Committee must keep information pertaining to the manuscript confidential.
3.The reviewers of the REE&PQJ-Scientific Committee must ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources of date used in the research. Any kind of similarity between the manuscript and other published paper, must be immediately brought in to notice to the Editor-in-Chief.
4.The reviewers of the REE&PQJ Scientific Committee must bring to the attention of the Editor-in-Chief any other information that may be reason to reject publication of a manuscript.
5.The reviewers of the REE&PQJ Scientific Committee must at any time evaluate manuscripts only for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
6.The reviewer of the REE&PQJ-Scientific Committee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify us and excuse himself from the review process.

REE&PQJ-Editorial Board and Chief Editor Responsibilities

Based on the review report of the peer review process, Chief Editor has the right to accept or reject the manuscript, or can send it to the authors for the modifications.
1.The REE&PQJ-Editorial Board must keep information pertaining to submitted manuscripts confidential.
2.The REE&PQJ-Editorial Board must disclose any conflicts of interest.
3.The REE&PQJ-Editorial Board must evaluate manuscripts only for their intellectual content.
3.The REE&PQJ-Editorial Board is responsible for making publication decisions for submitted manuscripts.

Manuel Pérez Donsión
Editor-in-Chief

Important links COPE-Committee on Publication Ethics COPE Guidelines for Retracting Articles CrossRef Association

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