Omnipotent editors are committed to acting in accordance with best editorial practices and to supporting initiatives to prevent scientific misconduct and encourage ethical publishing.

They must also: 

• Ensure that all articles considered for publication, in addition to being relevant, original and qualified, comply with research ethics standards, especially in the case of research involving human beings and animals. 
• Treat the manuscript and all submitted supplementary material confidentially, protecting the identity of reviewers and authors, since Omnipotent adopts a double-blind peer review procedure. 
• Ensure that all published manuscripts have been adequately evaluated by qualified reviewers (including statistical review, when necessary), not sharing with anyone, except the authors and reviewers themselves, information about their content and status in the review process, reviewers' criticisms and their final fate. 
• Select competent external reviewers in the thematic areas of the articles; 
• Seek reviewers who prepare high-quality and courteous opinions in an appropriate period of time. 
• Provide clear guidance to external reviewers and request that they indicate any conflicts of interest that may exist, before submitting the full text of the article for evaluation. 
• Act ethically at all stages of the editorial process, without discriminating against the origin of the manuscript, nationality, religious or political beliefs, gender or other characteristics of the authors, or without being guided by commercial interests. 
• Adopt a transparent editorial policy, provide clear instructions to authors, including on the steps of the editorial process and the criteria for authorship, and periodically update the instructions to authors. 
• Follow COPE guidelines in the event of suspected misconduct in publishing, investigate each suspicious situation, and publish errata, expressions of concern, and retractions where appropriate. 
• Provide a means for journal staff members involved in the editorial process, including the editors themselves, to receive training and stay up to date on the latest guidance, recommendations and evidence on scientific publishing. 
• Use tools to detect plagiarism, in order to avoid this form of misconduct, as well as to prevent duplicate publication. 
• Any form of scientific misconduct is not acceptable and constitutes grounds for rejection of the manuscript at any stage of the editorial process, in which case the editor will initiate the appropriate procedures detailed by COPE. 
• These are forms of misconduct: fabrication of data; falsification of data, materials, equipment or research processes, which includes the alteration or omission of data or results; misappropriation of data and materials; plagiarism, which consists of the appropriation of ideas, processes, results or large portions of text from another person without giving due credit; negligence in certifying the veracity of data; and text recycling (also called self-plagiarism), which occurs when a significant overlap of the same text is identified between two or more articles or sections appear (usually unreferenced) in more than one of the author's own publications. 
• Omnipotent adopts the iThenticate plagiarism system for texts previously selected by scientific publishers and prepared for peer review. The text is registered on the anti plagiarism platform of this plagiarism detection system, which automatically performs the process of searching and comparing possible sources. 
• In case of plagiarism, Omnipotent follows the COPE guidelines for submitted and published articles. Depending on the grading of the result of the check and the result of the contact maintained with the authors, the editor may request correction from the authors who omitted the credit or consider the retraction of the article, if it is published. 
• In the case of self-plagiarism, Omnipotent follows COPE's " Text Recycling Guidelines for Editors ". 
• Each case is considered individually and depends on factors such as how much text has been recycled, where the recycling occurs, and the type of article. If it is detected in a submitted text, the text is rejected, ensuring that the reason is clearly communicated to the authors. If it is in a published article, it may be necessary to publish a correction or retraction. 
• The retracted article will not be removed from where it was originally published. 
• Errors or failures that do not imply scientific misconduct may be corrected by means of an erratum.