Plagiarism detection

As indicated in the Code of Ethics, Revista Fidélitas will publish articles that include original and unpublished material. To achieve this, an initial review is carried out by the editor of the submitted works, where, among other activities, it is verified that there is no evidence of plagiarism.

The Journal takes into account a series of concepts related to plagiarism. It considers plagiarism to be the presentation of work done by other people as original and one’s own. Likewise, self-plagiarism is committed when previously published articles are presented as novel research when they are actually a copy of a previously published personal work (Bacca & Patiño, 2016*).

There are also other practices that clash with ethics and are related to plagiarism, such as: 1) Duplicate publication: using and presenting works or data as original and not authored by the submitting author; it may occur that this information has been previously published by other authors (Alfonso, Bermejo, & Segovia, 2005**). 2) Salami publication: occurs when research data are inappropriately split to write several articles (Molina & Gómez, 2016***). 3) Simultaneous submission: this action involves submitting the same material to two or more journals, conferences, or any other type of academic event in parallel, in order to maximize the probability of article acceptance. When an academic product is accepted in several journals or academic bodies, this becomes a form of self-plagiarism (Soto, 2012****).

If it is detected that any author(s) carry out any of the actions described in the previous paragraph, they will be informed that the manuscript will be returned and will not continue through Revista Fidélitas’s editorial review process. If the article has already been published in this Journal and it is found to contain data that match any of the types of plagiarism previously indicated, it will be reviewed with the Editorial Board and a retraction of the article will proceed, notifying the author of the situation; it will be removed from the Journal’s repositories and the sites where Revista Fidélitas is hosted will be informed so it can be deleted.

  • Bacca, R. R., & Patiño, H. D. J. (2016). Plagio y “auto-plagio”. Una reflexión. HiSTOReLo. Revista de Historia Regional y Local, 8(16), 271–284. DOI https://doi.org/10.15446/historelo.v8n16.56075

** Alfonso, F., Bermejo, J., & Segovia, J. (2005). Publicación duplicada o redundante: ¿podemos permitírnoslo?. Revista Española de Cardiología, 58(5), 601–604. https://www.revespcardiol.org/es-publicacion-duplicada-o-redundante-podemos-articulo-13074852

*** Molina Gómez, A., & Selín Ganén, M. (2016). Plagio en la publicación científica. MediSur, 14(1), 7–9. http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?pid=S1727-897X2016000100003&script=sci_arttext

**** Soto, A. (2012). El plagio y su impacto a nivel académico y profesional. Revista e-Ciencias de la Información, 2(1), 1–3. https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/4768/476848735003.pdf