Plagiarism Detection Guidelines

Ethics and Plagiarism Policy

  • Ethics Policy

Alterjor Journal is committed to ethics and the quality of its publications. Plagiarism, derivative work by third parties or any other unethical behavior is not accepted. As a main value, we adopt the practice of non-compliance identified as "Predatory Journals";(https://www.predatoryjournals.org/home), one of the guidelines of Ibict Diadorim.

To this end, Alterjor Journal has as its principle the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the publication: authors, reviewers and editors.

This statement is based on the recommendations of Elsevier and the Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors from Committee on Publication Ethics - COPE (http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines).

  • Ethical principles

The decisions of the Editors and the Editorial Board will not be influenced by commercial considerations or any source of revenue.

Alterjor is committed to intellectual standards and ethical principles and is willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary. Regarding ethical complaints about a submitted manuscript or published article, the editors will take the necessary measures to investigate the complaints, as well as their corrections or retractions.

  • Editors Duties

Publication decision: editors responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published are guided by the journal's policies, which must comply with current legal requirements regarding defamation, copyright infringement and plagiarism.

Transparency and respect: editors must evaluate submitted manuscripts without taking into account the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, nationality or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality: editors must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript, except to reviewers and editorial advisors.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest: editors must refuse to evaluate manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest, for collaborative, competitive reasons or other connections with any of the authors or institutions linked to the manuscripts, for which they must rely on the Editorial Board.

Involvement and cooperation in investigations: Editors must take appropriate action when ethical complaints are made regarding a submitted manuscript or published article.

Editorial responsibility: editors must always preserve the identity of authors and reviewers anonymously and treat manuscripts as confidential documents.

  • Reviewers Duties

Confidentiality: works received for analysis must be treated as confidential documents and must not disclose any information about the manuscript or show or discuss it with other people.

Disclosure and conflict of interest: referees must maintain confidentiality and must not use, for personal benefit, information or ideas obtained through reading the manuscripts.

Regarding sources: referees must identify relevant published works that were not cited by the authors, as well as draw the editors' attention to any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript in question and any other published article of which they have personal knowledge.

  • Authors Duties

Originality and plagiarism: authors must ensure that works are entirely original and if they use the work and/or texts of others this is properly cited. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical editorial behavior and is unacceptable.

Authorship: authorship of the work must be restricted to those who made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions must be listed as co-authors. People who participated in certain aspects of the research project should be listed as collaborators. The lead author must ensure that all appropriate co-authors are included in the article. The main author must ensure that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and that they have agreed to its submission for publication.

  • Multiple, redundant and simultaneous publication: Authors should not publish manuscripts that describe essentially the same research in more than one journal.

References:

Authors must cite publications that were important in determining the nature of the manuscript, as the work of other authors must always be recognized. Information obtained in a conversation, correspondence or discussion with third parties should only be used with the explicit permission of the source.

Errors in published work: when authors discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work it is an obligation to inform and co-operate with editors in order to correct the essay.

 

Plagiarism Detection

Alterjor Journal receives submissions based in good faith belief that the works sent are original and unpublished manuscripts. However, similarity verification is carried out without prior communication to the authors and always occurs during the evaluation process by using Turnitin tool, available for this purpose from an institutional agreement with the University of São Paulo.

The detection of plagiarism by the Turnitin tool at an acceptable level considers that the result returned must present an originality result greater than 70%, which provides for detection compatible with excerpts marked as citations.

For other cases, the work is discarded immediately, involving communication to the authors about the occurrence of plagiarism detection. The plagiarism detection procedure is carried out within the scope of blind evaluation (without author identification) and in the case of the text corresponding to publications by the author himself (self-plagiarism), the adopted criterion no longer meets the originality requirement, as it is an existing work whose detection by Turnitin returns a similarity result of 50%.

Although the use of Artificial Intelligence tools, such as Copilot integrated to Word (Text Processor) does not seem to be considered as plagiarism, the Clarivate tool used for this purpose will perform a detection scan to consider the presence of automatically inserted text that is incompatible with human writing. The Artificial Intelligence aspect is included in the detection of plagiarism when text detection indicates the mimicry of the writing style of researchers who are deceased or (falsely) credited as co-authors without authorization or consent to involvement a mimic technology.