Commitment to Bibliometric Ethics

The Revista Jurídica do Nordeste Mineiro (RJNM) reaffirms its commitment to scientific integrity and to internationally recognized best practices in academic publishing by adopting an explicit policy to prevent inappropriate citation manipulation.

The journal recognizes that bibliometric indicators — such as citation counts, h-index, and impact metrics — must legitimately reflect the scientific relevance of published works and must never result from artificial inducement, editorial coercion, or institutional strategies aimed at inflating metrics.

Core Principles

RJNM observes the following principles:

1. Prohibition of Citation Coercion
No author will be required to include citations to RJNM or to specific articles published by the journal as a condition for manuscript acceptance.

2. Justified Editorial Recommendations
If reviewers or editors suggest the inclusion of additional references, such recommendations must be exclusively grounded in scientific relevance, methodological contribution, or theoretical contextualization, never for institutional benefit.

3. Prohibition of Editorial Self-Promotion
The journal does not adopt artificial self-citation stimulation strategies nor internal policies aimed at improperly increasing bibliometric indicators.

4. Self-Citation Monitoring
RJNM periodically monitors its journal self-citation rates, conducting annual indicator analyses and implementing corrective measures when necessary, ensuring alignment with international evaluation standards.

5. Transparency and Editorial Auditability
Bibliometric data are handled transparently and may be audited through indexing databases and publicly accessible academic metric platforms.

Responsibilities of Editors and Reviewers

Members of the editorial board and ad hoc reviewers are instructed to:

  • Avoid systematic recommendations of citations to the journal;

  • Prioritize internationally recognized and methodologically relevant references;

  • Base any bibliographic inclusion suggestions on objective scientific criteria.

Conduct that may constitute bibliometric manipulation will be reviewed by the scientific editorial board and may result in removal from editorial collaboration.

Commitment to International Standards

This policy aligns with editorial best practices recommended by international publication ethics organizations and widely recognized academic indexing guidelines.

RJNM understands that scientific credibility is built upon methodological quality, thematic relevance, and editorial integrity — not through artificial metric enhancement strategies.

Our commitment is to ensure that citations received by published articles are the legitimate result of genuine scientific impact.