RITUREM journal is firmly committed to Open Access to Science and publishes all its articles using the Golden Route: immediate free access to its contents based on the principle that making research available to the public for free promotes the global exchange of knowledge. It also promotes gender equality and transparency as essential principles of its editorial policy. All articles in this journal are published under a Non-Comercial 4.0. Attribution license Internacional. 

This journal also complies with the Initiative and the I40C standards to promote the unrestricted availability of academic citation data. https://i4oc.org/

RITUREM adopts the COPE Code of Ethics,which is widely used among scientific journals, which will be used to resolve ethical issues in relation to the editing, evaluation and publication of articles.

                                                                       

RITUREM is also attached to the San Francisco Declaration on DORA Scientific Assessment, which promotes a change in the research evaluation system that is based on the impact factor, emphasizing the quality of research and not its publication.

1. PUBLICATION AND AUTHORSHIP

RITUREM requires authors to observe strict rules regarding editorial ethics in order to avoid undesirable situations of plagiarism and the publication of the same research in more than one journal, as well as to duplicate the publication of the authors' own work - in whole or in part - without due mention and misappropriation of the work of other authors.  Allegations of conduct and misconduct will be discussed initially with the appropriate author. If the argument persists, the matter will be referred to the author's institution, other authors and journals that may be affected and the relevant funding bodies for their research and prosecution.

2. AUTHOR´'S RESPONSIBILITIES

Authors are required to participate in a peer review process as well as they are all required to having contributed significantly to the research submitted for evaluation and that all the data contained in their articles be real and authentic. All authors are required to make mistakes fixes or changes.

3. PEER REVIEW AND REVIEWERS'S RESPONSIBILITY

The trials of the journal's peer review will be objective, and reviewers should have no conflict of interest with research, authors and/or research funders. In this regard, the journal shall ensure that the reviewers indicate, where appropriate, the relevant published work that is not cited in the articles under review, and that they, on the other hand, are treated confidentially.

4. EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

The editors of the journal assume full responsibility and authority to reject or accept an article. Publishers confirm that they have no conflict of interest with articles they reject/accept, which they will only accept an article when they are certain of its authenticity. If errors are found, publishers will encourage the publication of correction or retractions, preserving the anonymity of collaborators

5. EDITORIAL ETHICS ISSUES

Editorial ethics will be controlled and protected by the editorial board of the journal from the observation of the guidelines for accepted articles, maintaining the integrity of the academic record. The journal will always be ready to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary, not publishing in any case plagiarism or fraudulent data.

In addition, the Editorial and Editorial Board of the journal has at the disposal of the editors and evaluators of the journal the anti-plagiarism software TURNITIN, provided by the University Library of the University of Córdoba. The Turnitin program allows you to detect copies between document fragments and reports the percentage of copy and the fonts used. Provides additional help to editors and reviewers in evaluating submitted work. In no case, however, is this automatic system intended to replace the qualitative assessment of the articles submitted for publication of the journal by the editors and reviewers.

6. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AND AUTHORSHIP STATEMENT

All authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interest that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. If there is no conflict of interest, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest." It is also worth noting if there is not one.

Likewise, for research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided. Do not include this information in the submitted file, as this could compromise the anonymity of the evaluation.

Once an article has been accepted for publication, authorship must remain unchanged. In exceptional cases, an author can be added only after written consent by the rest of authors.

7. GENDER EQUALITY POLICY

The International Journal of Tourism, Business and Territory  is committed to implementing gender policies that lead to real equality between women and men in our society. This commitment is reflected in a number of key actions:

7.1. Editorial participation

The journal will take measures to ensure a balanced gender representation, both on the journal’s different boards and among referees.

7.2. Use of inclusive language

The Journal RITUREM recommends using inclusive language in scientific articles, in order to take into account the presence and situation of women in society and in accordance with the principle of gender equality. In this sense, authors are encouraged to use gender-neutral rather than masculine terms to refer to classes or groups of individuals, whether male or female. It is also advisable to add explanatory phrases or, when none of the above is possible, make explicit reference to both women and men in the text.
For further details about alternatives and recommendations, see the United Nations website ("Gender-inclusive language").

7.3. Sex and gender in research

When writing research works, authors must avoid gender stereotypes and biases whereby men are regarded as the universal point of reference, biological differences are exacerbated or socially constructed differences are seen as natural. They must also consider the sex variable in research of any kind concerning persons, animals, tissues or cells, which involves: 1.) Reflecting and making well-founded decisions on sample composition by sex and providing information about the sex of the subjects analysed; 2.) Analysing existing differences within each sex and presenting results disaggregated by sex. For more information, see the "Gender in EU-funded research" toolkit.

8. ARCHIVE PRESERVATION POLICY

8.1. Digital preservation
RITUREM uses the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. The journal’s LOOKSS publisher page is available at: https://journals.uco.es/riturem/gateway/lockss

The journal uses persistent identifiers (DOI and ORCID). In addition to usual procedures for creating multiple and versioned backup copies, the contents of the journal are replicated in the University of Cordoba institutional repository (HELVIA UCO), based on DSpace.

2. Interoperability protocol
The journal implements the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol, a tool for metadata harvesting from repositories. This can be verified at:  https://journals.uco.es/riturem/oai