Plagiarism

The journal's policy is to publish original works, authored by those who declare themselves as the authors, and unpublished, meaning they cannot have been previously published in any printed or electronic medium. To ensure academic integrity and prevent plagiarism, the journal implements a set of strategies to avoid plagiarism in publications as recommended by the COPE guidelines.

Authors are required to refrain from committing plagiarism, which is defined as the appropriation of texts from other authors without their consent and without properly citing the source, even in cases where explicit permission has been obtained from the original authors. Additionally, authors are expected to avoid the inclusion of substantial parts of their own previously published works in the submitted texts, ensuring that there is no more than a 20% overlap between a previous text and the proposed work.

The plagiarism check process is carried out during peer review. The journal's editors use an anti-plagiarism software tool (iThenticate) to analyze each article. If similarities exceeding 20% are detected, the article undergoes a thorough evaluation. The report generated by iThenticate is reviewed by the editors, who contact the authors to inform them about the percentage of plagiarism if it is deemed unacceptable. After this control process, the editors send a report to the author, which may result in the definitive rejection of the article or, alternatively, provide an opportunity to rewrite the work, properly citing the sources of the identified plagiarized texts. Please refer to the steps proposed by COPE in case a possible plagiarism is detected during the review process in the following link.