Publication Ethics

EDITORIAL POLICY

Preprints

ABO accepts articles that are already available as preprints. This condition, as well as the repository, must be mentioned at the time of submission.

Peer review process

The evaluation process involves a preliminary analysis of the manuscript to ensure that the submission meets the journal’s requirements. Subsequently, specialized editors evaluate whether the article meets ABO’s scope and focus, and from there, anonymous volunteer reviewers are selected.

Open data

ABO offers authors the possibility to keep data open and recommends the SciELO data repository. Other repositories are equally accepted. This policy refers to “the sharing of data, codes, methods, and other materials used and resulting from research that usually underlie the texts of articles published by journals.”

• TOP Guide: https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/Guia_TOP_en.pdf
• Research data citation guide: https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/guia-de-citacao-de-dados_pt.pdf
• List of research data repositories: https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/Lista-de-Repositorios-Recomendados_pt.pdf

 

Policy on Ethics and Misconduct, Erratum, and Retraction

ABO’s ethical issues shall be addressed by the editorial board, and the decisions shall be communicated to the Board of Directors. Decisions will follow SciELO’s Good Practices policies:

• Good Practices Guide:
  https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/Guide-to-Best-Practices-for-Strengthening-Ethics-in-Scientific-Publishing.pdf
• Guide to erratum registration and publication:
  https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/guia_errata.pdf
• Guide to the registration and publication of a retraction:
  https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/guia_retratacao.pdf

Intellectual Property and Terms of Use

Site responsibility:

There are no rights reserved by the ABO portal.

Author’s responsibility:
ABO encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts by publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and scholarly social media, as well as posting them on their personal social media, provided the full citation of the version on the journal’s website is included.
The license adopted by ABO (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/) is CC-BY. All journal content and articles published in ABO are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license, except where otherwise specified.

Sponsors and Funding Agencies

Brazilian Council of Ophthalmology - Conselho Brasileiro de Oftalmologia (CBO).