About the Journal
Publication Frequency
The jounal will publish two issues per year.
Open Access Policy
This journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that providing free scientific knowledge to the public provides greater global democratization of knowledge.
Ethical Principles GTP
The Gestão & Tecnologia de Projeto (Design Management and Technology - GTP) considers the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the publication: authors, editors, and evaluators of manuscripts.
This statement was reproduced from IAU USP's Risco magazine (with minor adaptations) and is based on Elsevier recommendations and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practices Guidelines for Journal Editors (http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines)
Ethical Principles:
The decisions of the Editors and the Editorial Board will not be influenced by commercial considerations or sources of revenue.
The GTP has a commitment to intellectual standards and ethical principles and is willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when necessary. With respect to ethical complaints about a submitted manuscript or published article, the publishers will take the necessary steps to determine the claim as well as its corrections or retraction.
Duties of Editors:
Publication decision: editors responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published are guided by the journal's policies, which must comply with the legal requirements in force on defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.
Transparency and respect: editors should evaluate manuscripts submitted without regard to the authors' race, sex, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnicity, nationality or political philosophy.
Confidentiality: Publishers should not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript other than to reviewers and editorial counselors.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest: Publishers may refuse to evaluate manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest, for reasons of collaborative, competitive or other links with any of the authors. Where necessary, the publisher may designate a specific and exempt editor to review the article's editorial process or consult the Editorial Board to discuss the best way to submit the work evaluation.
Involvement and cooperation in investigations: editors should take appropriate action when ethical complaints are submitted regarding a submitted manuscript or published article.
Editorial Responsibility: Publishers should always preserve the identity of authors and reviewers on anonymity and treat manuscripts as confidential documents.
Duties of the peer reviewer:
Confidentiality: Papers received for analysis should be treated as confidential documents, should not disclose any information about the manuscript or show or discuss with others.
Disclosure and conflict of interest: reviewers should keep confidential and should not use for personal benefits information or ideas obtained through the reading of the manuscripts.
On sources: reviewers should identify relevant published works that were not cited by the authors and should draw the editors' attention to any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript in question and any other published article of which it is personally aware.
Duties of the Authors:
Originality and plagiarism: Authors must ensure that the works are entirely original and if they use the work and/or texts of others that this is duly cited. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical editorial behavior and is unacceptable.
Authorship: the authorship of the work should be restricted to those who have made a significant contribution to the design, design, execution or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. People who have participated in certain aspects of the research project should be listed as collaborators. The lead author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors are included in the article. The lead author should make sure that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to its submission for publication.
Multiple, redundant, simultaneous publication: authors should not publish manuscripts that essentially describe the same content in more than one journal.
The journal uses the iThenticate system to verify the similarity of manuscripts.
On the sources: authors should cite the publications that were important in determining the nature of the manuscript since the work of other authors should always be recognized. Information obtained in a conversation, correspondence or discussion with third parties should be used only with the express written permission of the source.
Errors in Published Work: When authors discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work it is a must inform and cooperate with the editors for the correctness of the article.
Sources of research funding: it is the responsibility of the authors to inform.
