Anti-Plagiarism Policy

General Provisions

The anti-plagiarism policy sets standards for ensuring academic integrity, defines procedures for detecting and responding to cases of plagiarism, and establishes the responsibility of authors when submitting materials for publication. The policy is based on COPE recommendations and international practices of scientific publishing.

Definition of plagiarism

Plagiarism is defined as any presentation of someone else's ideas, data, text, images, or research results as one's own without proper reference to the source.

Plagiarism includes:

  • Direct plagiarism - verbatim copying of text without citing or proper formatting.
  • Mosaic plagiarism - paraphrasing parts of the text while preserving the structure or key elements without citing the source.
  • Plagiarism of ideas - using concepts, hypotheses, models, or methods of another author without proper indication of authorship.
  • Data plagiarism – the use of someone else’s results, tables, graphs or statistical materials without permission or citation.
  • Self-plagiarism – the reuse of one’s own previously published materials (text, data, graphs) without clearly indicating the fact of previous publication.
  • Insufficient citation – a reference to a source that does not reflect the actual amount of material used.

Plagiarism is the theft of intellectual property, therefore, original articles submitted to this collection that contain significant text borrowings from other articles, monographs, etc. without indicating authorship will be immediately rejected.

Standards of integrity that authors must adhere to

By submitting a manuscript for publication, authors confirm that:

  • the text is original and does not infringe copyright;
  • all sources used are correctly cited;
  • all data, figures, tables or images belong to the authors or are used with permission;
    no part of the text has been published previously, except for materials with appropriate disclosure (preprints, conference abstracts, etc.).

In the case of using their own previous works, authors are required to clearly indicate the fact of reuse and ensure that the new text has significant scientific novelty.

Self-plagiarism

The publication distinguishes between:

  • permissible reuse of individual fragments of the text (description of methods, well-known theories), provided that the previous works are correctly referenced;
  • critical self-plagiarism, which consists in duplicating significant parts of their own previously published materials without proper disclosure, and is considered a violation.

Authors are required to explicitly indicate the presence of previous publications on the topic, and if necessary, provide copies of previous works for editorial review.

Manuscripts for plagiarism checking

If plagiarism, self-plagiarism, or duplication of publications is detected during review and editorial processing, the editorial board rejects the article without the right to resubmit. Manuscripts of articles in which a significant percentage of text borrowings is detected after checking for plagiarism using the Unichesk and/or Strikeplagiarism systems are returned to the authors for revision.

If plagiarism, self-plagiarism, or duplication of publications is detected in an already published article, an announcement will be made on the article page in the journal and the article retraction procedure will be initiated.

Principles of Transparency

All processes of evaluation, verification and response to cases of plagiarism are carried out: confidentially, independently, in accordance with COPE recommendations and with documented recording of all decisions of the editorial board.