The Brazilian Journal of Political Economy (BJPE) excels in the practices of respect for ethical conduct, following the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Guide of Good Practices for the Strengthening of Ethics in Scientific Publication of Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO).

Responsibility of the authors

When submitting articles to the BJPE, authors automatically declare that the contents of the articles are original and unpublished, except for the texts published as preprints. They also declare that the article was not published, complete or incomplete, in another journal, even if in another language, nor was it submitted to another journal simultaneously. In addition, they also undertake to inform the journal when they detect any error or inaccuracy in their work (published, under evaluation or editing) and to collaborate with the editors so that the article is properly retracted or corrected. Authors are responsible for the content of their articles, as well as for the copyright of images and textual or complementary elements to their articles. To ensure an editorial policy based on the criteria defined for the good practice of academic production, avoiding plagiarism, violations of ethical principles, fraud, and possible lawsuits, Brazilian Journal of Political Economy recommends that authors observe the following steps before submission:

• Check the provisions of the COPE website, to know the ethical principles provided for therein;
• Place the appropriate references of the data incorporated, analyzed or interpreted from other publications;
• Indicate as authors of the text only the names that have actually participated in all phases of the research and writing of the article. BJPE recommends alignment with the authorship criteria of CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy);
• Inform, if any, the sources of funding for the research that gave rise to the submitted text.
• Declare at the time of manuscript submission if ChatGPT or Large Language Models were used for writing, producing images or graphic elements of the article, or in the collection and analysis of data. Additionally, state that after using this tool/service, the author(s) reviewed and edited the content as necessary, assuming full responsibility for the publication's content.

Responsibility of the editor-in-chief and coeditor

The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for implementing the journal's editorial policy, monitoring the entire editorial process, coordinating the team of Associate Editors and those responsible for organizing thematic dossiers. It is also responsible for the dialogue with the members of the Editorial Board, authors of articles and reviewers, indexers, research funding agencies, institutions/forums of the scientific community and the general public. It is its responsibility to decide which articles will be published in the journal, and for this purpose, it may consult the Editorial Board and the Executive and Associate Editor(s). In the event of complaints of an ethical nature, it will also be up to the Editor-in-Chief to take the appropriate measures to remedy them.

Responsibility of the Editorial Board

It is the responsibility of the Editorial Board to define and comply with the guidelines outlined for the journal, suggesting measures for its improvement, whenever necessary; indicate, when requested, names of experts for issuing evaluative opinions of articles submitted for publication; encourage and disseminate the publication of articles in/of the journal; advise the work of the editors, whenever requested.

Responsibility of the Members of the Executive and Associate Editors

Editors will invest efforts in preventing bad practices and unethical behavior in the publication of articles, not tolerating any type of plagiarism. The editors undertake to evaluate the works submitted to the journal objectively and for their intellectual content, without discrimination of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, geographic origin or political thought. They also undertake to treat authors' contributions confidentially while they are under evaluation and if the work is rejected.

Responsibility of the Members of the Editorial Staff

• State that ethical conduct has been followed in all the processes involving the submission, double blind review and publication of articles.
• Guarantee a high standard of ethical conduct, integrity, impartiality, transparency and agility in communicating with the various actors involved in the submission, evaluation and publication processes.
• Will immediately alert their immediate manager about possible conflicts of interest that could prejudice the integrity of their actions as members of the journal’s Editorial Staff. A conflict of interest is any personal, intellectual, commercial, political, academic or financial issue. Conflicts of interest can occur when authors, reviewers or editors have interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts.

Responsibility of the Ad hoc reviewers

• Will position themselves as references in terms of ethical conduct and integrity.
• Assure confidentiality, impartiality and integrity in evaluating the article.
• Will not use, under any circumstances, privileged information to which they have had access as a reviewer.
• Promise to contribute to the effective improvement of the paper, with critical and constructive reviews.
• Agree to complete the evaluation within the timeframe agreed to with the editor.
• Will alert the editor about any possible conflicts of interest that could prejudice the integrity of the evaluation process. A conflict of interest is any personal, intellectual, commercial, political, academic or financial issue. Conflicts of interest can occur when authors, reviewers or editors have interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts.
• Will alert the editor about any similar published or submitted works.

FGV (Publishing institution)

To stimulate adherence to the FGV Code of Ethics

BJPE (The publisher)

• Assures that the editor-in-chief, members of the editorial staff, the editorial board, the scientific editorial board, and ad hoc reviewers are aware of their roles as promoters, defenders and followers of the BJPE Code of Ethics to which they must adhere.
• Assures ethical conduct in all of the periodical processes involving submission, double blind reviews and publication.
• Assures integrity, impartiality, confidentiality and transparency in the scientific certification process for the articles submitted for publication.
• Assures ethical conduct, integrity, impartiality, transparency and agility in communicating with the various actors involved in the processes of submitting, evaluating and publishing articles.
• Will establish and manage policies regarding conflicts of interest among the many actors who participate in the periodical’s scientific certification and publication processes.
• Will define and put into practice policies to prevent and institute sanctions in cases of bad ethical conduct.
• Protects and preserves intellectual property rights.
• Constantly strengthens the editorial independence of every periodical.

BJPE in partnership with the editor-in-chief

• Assists the editor-in-chief in constantly improving the journal’s editorial quality and originality as well as scientific rigor.
• Will improve the viability and development of the periodical together with the scientific, academic and business communities.
• Will make every effort to constantly improve the journal.
• Will define and put into practice policies to prevent and institute sanctions in cases of bad ethical conduct.

Intellectual property

BJPE commits itself to contributing to the protection of authors’ intellectual property rights. This is why it:

• Uses the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) for all published texts, except where there are indications of specific authors’ and sponsorship rights.
• Assures the author of the moral and use rights of his/her article.
• Uses similarity detection software.
• Recommends alignment with the authorship criteria of CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy);
• Adopts actions to combat plagiarism and bad ethical conduct in accordance with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Policy for violations of production and scientific publication good practices

BJPE follows policies established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) / Flowcharts for instances of bad ethical conduct.