Publication Ethics

Research Ethics

All submitted manuscripts must comply with the ethical standards relevant to the authors' discipline. Research involving human participants must have received prior approval from an appropriate institutional ethics committee or review board, and this must be stated explicitly in the Methods section. Authors must declare any potential conflicts of interest. Informed consent from participants must be documented where applicable. The journal adheres to the publication ethics guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Originality and Plagiarism

All manuscripts submitted to Decolonial Perspectives must be original works that have not been previously published, in whole or in part, in any language, and must not be under simultaneous consideration elsewhere. Plagiarism, including self-plagiarism and the unattributed reproduction of one's own previously published work, is strictly prohibited. All submissions are screened using plagiarism detection software. A similarity index exceeding 20% (excluding references) will result in immediate rejection.

Authorship

Authorship should be restricted to individuals who have made a substantive intellectual contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the research. All listed authors must have approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to its submission. Any changes to the authorship after submission must be approved in writing by all authors and communicated to the editorial office.

Decolonial Perspectives operates under a double-blind peer review system. To protect the integrity of this process, manuscripts must be submitted without any author-identifying information in the manuscript file itself. Author details (name, institutional affiliation, ORCID iD, biographical note, and corresponding email) are to be entered exclusively through the journal's Open Journal Systems (OJS) submission portal. Any manuscript containing author-identifying information in the manuscript file will be returned to the author for correction prior to review.

Data Availability and Transparency

Authors are encouraged to make their research data available in a publicly accessible repository where ethically and legally permissible. A Data Availability Statement must be included in the submitted manuscript, indicating whether data are available and, if so, where they can be accessed. For library-based, archival, or theoretical research, authors should specify the primary sources or documentary corpus upon which the study is based.

Declaration of Competing Interests

Authors must disclose any financial, personal, or professional relationships that may be perceived as influencing the research. This declaration must appear at the end of the manuscript, before the References section. If no competing interests exist, the statement should read: "The authors declare no competing interests."

Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence

The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the preparation of manuscripts must be disclosed. AI tools may not be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of the work. Any use of AI writing assistance must be acknowledged in the manuscript under a dedicated 'AI Disclosure' subsection within the Author Contributions or Acknowledgements section.