Plagiarism and Artificial Intelligence Policy

Plagiarism

The Journal has  no tolerance for plagiarism that it detects in manuscripts submitted for publication.

Plagiarism includes copying text, ideas, images, or data from another source, even from an author’s own publications (self-plagiarism), without giving any credit to the original source.

All submitted manuscripts will be checked with a Turnitin report that indicates no plagiarism with a  similarity of less that 20% (excluding bibliography, quotations and minor sources of less than 1%) and maximum 10% similarity from a single source.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The Journal adopts international standards relating to the use of AI and adheres to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines on “Authorship and AI Tools” (COPE, 2023) and the Elsevier policy on publishing ethics for “Generative AI policies for journals” and “AI author policies for books”.

These polices stipulate that authors should document their use of AI, including the name of the AI Tool used in the research process, which should be declared and described in detail in the methodology.

AI used for language or text-editing does not require declaration.