Ethical code

The Revista Argentina de Terapia Intensiva is committed to meeting and maintaining standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We join industry associations, such as Elsevier's Publishing Ethics Committee (COPE) and Publishing Ethics Resource Kit (PERK), which set standards and provide guidelines for best practices to meet these requirements. Below is a summary of these for editors, authors, and reviewers:
Ensure the confidentiality of the authors' data in the review process.

• Ensure the custody of unaccepted texts and explain how they are destroyed.
• Define and explain the acceptance criteria of the articles for review.
• Avoid favor deals to the detriment of other authors.
• Have no conflict of interest in relation to the texts presented.
• Do not make any use of the texts or the data presented in them, beyond those of being published.
• Establish clear review criteria and objectives to avoid the subjectivity of the reviewers.
• Establish clear deadlines to respond to the authors on the acceptance or non-acceptance of the text.
• Review suspected incidents of plagiarism and resolve any conflict of interest.
• Evaluate manuscripts only for their intellectual content, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnicity, nationality, or the authors' political philosophy.