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Open Access ↷ | Data Warehouse and Preprints ↷ | Antiplagiarism ↷ | Persistent Identifiers ↷ | Advertising ↷| Digital Preservation ↷ |Interoperability ↷|AI Policy ↷ ||Retraction and Correction Policy ↷ |

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Updated version: September 2025

Open Access Policy

Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Dermatología y Cirugía Dermatológica is an open access journal, so all its content is available online for readers, without the need to pay fees or register. Likewise, the submission of publication proposals does not generate any monetary charge for the authors.

Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Dermatología y Cirugía Dermatológica adheres to the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

All the contents of this journal are under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, so it can be copied and redistributed in any medium or format, recognizing the name of the authors and the journal. It is permitted to quote, adapt, transform, self-archive, republish and create from the material, for any purpose (except commercial), as long as the authorship is properly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided and it is indicated if changes have been made using the same distribution license.

Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Dermatología y Cirugía Dermatológica publishes in Open Access all its content from the beginning; however, from Vol. 32, No. 2 (2024) onwards the authorship rights belong to the authors, rather than to the journal or publisher. The aforementioned CC License is included in OJS in articles since 2022 in a systematic way, previously they did not appear in the system or appeared in some articles. This responds to the process of improving

Self-archiving: Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Dermatología y Cirugía Dermatológica grants permission to authors to:

- Archive in open access server or institutional repository, the published version of the article in the journal.
- Archive in personal repositories the definitive and published version of the work. In all cases, the acknowledgement of the first publication must be included.
- Share the published version in social networks, informing the credits. For example, ResearchGate, Academia, Mendeley.
- And all rights granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, unless otherwise noted.

Data Warehouse and Preprints

Data Repository and Data Processing
Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Dermatología y Cirugía Dermatológica promotes and adheres to the practice of Data Sharing and the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles always in the context of the basic principles of ethics in scientific publication. As a scientific journal of growing international positioning, the Journal of the Colombian Association of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery provides recommendations and basic integrations for authors wishing to publish in the journal. Likewise, it informs that the editorial flow for the rigorous handling of data corpus follows these COPE guidelines in this regard.
Those investigations that have a defined corpus of data and these or part of them are susceptible to be public, should make use of these guidelines:
- Host the DataSet in an institutional repository and share the identifier associated with that repository.
- Share the DataSet identifier at the time of proposal submission.
- The data will be submitted for peer review in conjunction with the proposed article. The best reproducibility practices at the moment of the elaboration of the DataSet as well as the corresponding article, contribute to a higher rate of readability and methodological clarity at the moment of the peer review process.
- In cases where the author does not have access to a specific repository and wishes to upload his/her Dataset to a repository, the Journal of the Colombian Association of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery invites the author to do so in the Open Access repository Data LatArXiv or SciELo Data.

Sensitive Data
Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Dermatología y Cirugía Dermatológica in compliance with Law 1581 of 2012 and Decree 1377 of 2013, and other concordant norms, has adopted this Policy for the Treatment of Sensitive Data with the objective of guaranteeing the fundamental right to the protection of personal data of authors, readers, evaluators and other persons who interact with the journal.
Sensitive data are those that reveal personal and private information about an individual, whose dissemination may cause some kind of damage, are personal data that affect privacy and can be misused to discriminate or damage their reputation, for example personal data of patients that reveal information about their health and are protected by law (genetic data, biometric data, physical or mental health information, information about sex life, ethnic or racial origin).
Additionally, sensitive data are also those that have authorship or belong to a funding entity that has not declared its open access.

Those researches with a corpus of data containing sensitive information for the public must also be proposed to the journal and inform the Committee of the quality of the associated corpus of data at the time of submission. Based on such communication, the editorial committee will evaluate the status of the proposal and will advance in the mediation of the editorial flow to ensure a rigorous anonymous review without compromising sensitive data for third parties. Likewise, Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Dermatología y Cirugía Dermatológica communicates that the reproducibility of the arguments put forward in the proposed article should not be affected by the sensitivity of the data used.

PrePrints
In accordance with our open access and self-archiving policy, Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Dermatología y Cirugía Dermatológica encourages the deposit of submissions to preprints and other repositories of the initial version submitted to the journal.
Each published preprint should be informed at the time of uploading through the editorial flow of OJS to carry out the corresponding management to update metadata associated with the versions in the different assigned DOIs, if published.
In case of not having an option identified for the PrePrint deposit, Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Dermatología y Cirugía Dermatológica recommends doing it in LatArXiv PrePrint or Scielo PrePrints.

 

Anti-plagiarism policy

Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Dermatología y Cirugía Dermatológica defines:

Plagiarism, i.e., copying the approaches, procedures or results of other authors presenting them as one's own, considering it an ethical misconduct and a violation against the intellectual property of the original author or researcher.

Self-plagiarism is the copying of fragments or paraphrasing of articles previously published by the authors without the respective citation. Citing previous works of the authors is valid, as long as the reference is duly attached.

Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Dermatología y Cirugía Dermatológica uses iThenticate to detect plagiarism in the publication proposals it receives. It is therefore mandatory to provide information that refers to the original source. If unjustifiable similarity or plagiarism is detected, the manuscript will be discarded for publication.

 

Persistent identifiers policy

All articles and issues published by Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Dermatología y Cirugía Dermatológica have a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) that guarantees permanent access to the articles, thanks to the registration, tracking and constant monitoring of metadata. Each DOI identifier is deposited in Crossref through the OJS (Open Journal Systems) manager. To ensure its operation, the DOI is always shown as a complete URL link, both in the presentation of articles and issues of the journal, as well as in the corresponding galleys.

At Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Dermatología y Cirugía Dermatológica we also use ORCID iD for author registration. This is a persistent identifier that distinguishes authors from other researchers, facilitates the recognition of their contributions and reduces the possibility of error in their registration. This identifier is requested by the authors themselves through the website of ORCID, a global non-profit organization that promotes the transparent exchange of information.

In Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Dermatología y Cirugía Dermatológica, from Vol. 33 No. 2 (2025) onwards, each article receives a unique identifier (for example: e1970), included in the PDF file and maintains its own internal pagination. This change is due to a better organization of the content in view of future editorial implementations that will allow a continuous publication frequency, which is foreseen from Vol. 33 No. 3 (2025) onwards.

 

Advertising Policy

Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Dermatología y Cirugía Dermatológica accepts advertising from third parties ("advertisers") on its website, which may include posters or banners, badges and contextual advertising. All advertising will be clearly and unambiguously identified.

Advertisements shall maintain a clear separation from editorial content and shall have no bearing on editorial decision making.

 

Digital Preservation Policy

Journal of the Colombian Association of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, is deposited in Pórtico.

Persistent DOI and ORCID identifiers are used.

It has Keepers seal.

Interoperability

Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Dermatología y Cirugía Dermatológica has active OAI-PMH Interoperability protocols which are facilitated by basic functions of our OJS system. To access the OAI Interoperability URL you can visit the following link: https://revista.asocolderma.org.co/index.php/asocolderma/oai

IA Policy

Due to the increasing use of artificial intelligence in academic works, the Journal of the Colombian Association of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery establishes the following policy:
Artificial intelligence tools (Chat GPT, CNN, GAN, etc.) cannot be considered co-authors of the work. It is unacceptable to use these tools to fabricate for convenience or manipulate data in the research study.
Their use is allowed as part of the methodology used in studies, and it must be stated in which parts of the article AI has been used (e.g., writing the manuscript, data analysis, image generation, etc.) and the specific software or tool that was used and if it was mentioned/cited in the manuscript.

Retraction and Correction Policy

Definition and Purpose

Retraction is defined as the formal withdrawal of previously published content due to serious errors, scientific misconduct, or ethical violations that compromise the reliability of findings. Its primary purpose is to correct the scientific record and protect the integrity of academic literature, not to sanction authors.

Corrections address errors that do not invalidate the main findings of an article but may affect its interpretation, clarity, or accuracy.

Criteria for Retraction

Retraction will be considered when:
- Findings are unreliable due to major errors (miscalculations, experimental errors) or misconduct (fabrication, falsification)
- The article constitutes plagiarism or contains material copied without proper attribution
- Redundant publication is identified without proper disclosure, permission, or justification
- Data or material is included without proper authorization
- Copyright violations or serious legal issues exist
- Research does not meet ethical standards (lack of informed consent or ethical approval)
- The peer review process has been compromised or manipulated
- Authors have not disclosed major conflicts of interest that could unduly influence interpretations

Criteria for Corrections

Erratum: Errors introduced during the editorial process (typographical, formatting, production) that do not affect scientific integrity. Will be managed through new versions in OJS with independent DOI assignment and Crossmark registration according to CrossRef standards.

Corrigendum: Errors identified by authors, reviewers, or readers in data, analysis, or interpretation that may impact scientific understanding of the work. Will be managed through new independent article with its own article ID, independent DOI, and Crossmark registration according to CrossRef practices.

When retraction is NOT justified:
- Authorship disputes without questioning the validity of findings
- Main findings remain reliable and a correction can adequately address errors
- Evidence for retraction is inconclusive
- Conflicts of interest reported after publication that would not have materially influenced conclusions

Retraction Procedure

Request: Authors, institutions, readers, or the editor may request retraction through formal written communication including: specific and detailed reasons, supporting evidence, and in case of authors: proposed retraction note.

Evaluation Process: Investigation according to COPE guidelines, consultation with relevant parties (authors, reviewers, institutions), independent evaluation when necessary, final editorial decision based on evidence.

Publication: Retraction notice published immediately in continuous publication mode, clear linkage to original article, specification of reasons and those responsible for retraction, objective and factual language avoiding speculation, original article remains visible with clear "RETRACTED" marking.

Corrections Procedure

Identification: Report by authors, reviewers, or readers, editorial evaluation of error significance.

Publication: Independent correction document with its own DOI, bidirectional linking with original article, clear specification of errors and corrections made, banner in original article directing to correction.

Special Cases

Partial Retractions: Partial retractions are not issued as they may create ambiguity about which parts of content are reliable. Corrections are preferred when only one section is affected.

Expression of Concern: May be issued when conclusive evidence is not immediately available (e.g., pending institutional investigation), alerting readers to potential issues while investigation is completed.

Technical Management

DOIs and Metadata:
- Retractions: Maintain original DOI with CrossRef metadata updates
- Corrections: New independent DOI (DOI C) linked to original (DOI B)
- Registration of "updates" relationships in CrossRef metadata
- Notification to indexing databases when appropriate

Accessibility:
- All notices are freely accessible
- Available in print and digital versions
- Included in bibliographic databases

Fundamental Principles and Contact

Transparency: All processes follow COPE guidelines with clear documentation of decisions and procedures followed.

Fairness: Authors have the right to respond and participate in the process before final decisions.

Integrity: The goal is to maintain reliability of the scientific record, protecting both readers and the academic community.

Timeliness: Corrections and retractions are published as soon as possible after identifying problems, especially on clinically relevant topics.

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