Code of conduct for authors

The authors of manuscripts sent to Revista Portuguesa de Oncologia (RPO)- Journal of the Portuguese Society of Oncology undertake to follow the principles of honesty, integrity, responsibility, and transparency.

In any case, they must declare any potential conflict of interest and/or financing, scholarship, or payment of fees from the private initiative 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/