The European Review of Digital Administration & Law is an international periodical publication based on the principle of peer review, which adopts the following
ETHICAL CODE
Art. 1
Decisions on the publication of articles and non-discrimination
1. The editors after consulting, where appropriate, one or more members
of the scientific committee, are responsible for the choice of the articles to
be published following the positive outcome of the peer review, and base
this choice exclusively on the basis of criteria of scientific relevance,
methodological strictness, originality, clarity of presentation and
consistency with the thematic areas of the Review.
2. The publication is open to anyone who wants to contribute. In any case,
without exception, the choice of articles to be published is made without
any discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, religious or philosophical
conviction, citizenship, sexual orientation, age and political orientation of
the authors.
Art. 2
Relations between directors and authors
1. When the editors receive articles proposed for publication from the
authors, they are required to promptly provide feedback no later than the
time necessary to carefully examine the papers. They have to provide
promptly a response as to whether it was considered or not to publish the
article, in any case subject to the positive outcome of the peer review
process.
2. The editors may propose changes or corrections to the articles before
they are subjected to the peer review process only if these changes are
intended to ensure that the papers better approximate the criteria listed in
Article 1.
3. After the peer review process the editors may require authors to make
changes and corrections to their articles only according to what has been
required by anonymous reviewers.
4. The editors may ask the authors for editorial changes to their articles
which do not involve changes to their content at any stage of the
publication process, only if they are consistent with the editorial criteria of
the review, or they can make them directly.
Art. 3
Need for peer review
1. The editors, after having viewed a contribution and having deemed it
valid according to Article 1, will submit it to anonymous review, under
blind review conditions, by one or more persons of proven scientific
competence in the area of relevance of the article.
2. The entire peer review procedure is carried out according to the only
criteria of the pursuit of quality and scientific interest of the papers in full
guarantee of anonymity, confidentiality, impartiality and the absence of any
conflict of interest on the part of all the people who participate in it for
any reason.
3. The editors, following the anonymous review process, strictly adhere to
it regardless of the outcome, and undertake to ensure that, in the event of
a request for changes by the reviewers, the author creates a new draft of
the article which shows that it has considered the suggestions that he
received.
4. The entire anonymous review process must take place no later than the
time necessary for the reviewers to properly examine the papers, taking
into account their other concomitant commitments.
Art. 4
Duties of the Authors
1. The author who submits an article to the Review guarantees, assuming
all responsibility, that the contribution fully complies with the national and
international regulations about copyright, and that all the bibliographic
sources used for the publication have been cited correctly.
2. The author guarantees that the authorship of the work is entirely his
own, it being understood that it is always possible to present a work with
multiple authors, with the same guarantee of the authorship of the authors
only.
3. The author must guarantee the possibility to publish their paper as
unpublished, or that its publication in the Review does not conflict with
commitments previously undertaken by them.
4. The author who submits an article implicitly declares that there is no
type of conflict of interest that has affected the contents of that work.
Art. 5
Shared responsibility
1. All those among the editors, the associated editors, the members of the scientific committee, the members of the editorial board and the reviewers, who read the article during the publication process, are required to report if they recognize in the paper any indication of violation of copyright, or an undeclared conflict of interest, or an element of the content in which is identified any kind of violation of civil and criminal law. In that case, the editors will cancel the publication of the article at any time during the editorial process.