Code of conduct for authors

Authors submitting manuscripts to Neumología y Cirugía de Tórax (NCT)  are expected to adhere to the principles of honesty, integrity, responsibility, and transparency.

In any case, they must declare any potential conflicts of interest and/or financing, scholarship, or payment of fees from the private sector, received in the last 3 years, or during the development of their research.

The following actions will be considered bad practices and may lead to the retraction of the manuscript:

• • Plagiarism
  • Lack of adherence to international ethical standards in the development of research.
  • Data fractioning or salami slicing
  • Falsification, appropriation, or unauthorized reproduction of data, figures, images, algorithms, or tables.
  • Duplicate or redundant publication
  • Manipulation of bibliographic citations, including unwarranted self-citation
  • Omission of relevant information that has a direct impact on the content of the manuscript.
  • Unjustified alteration of the authors’ list

For detailed information, please refer to: https://publicationethics.org/