Plagiarism and Duplicate Publication Policy

Plagiarism and self-plagiarism

A special case of authors misconduct is plagiarism - the publication (in full or in part) of another person's work or ideas as one's own and/or reproduction of published texts (published works of art) of other authors without indicating authorship (Art. 42 of the Law of Ukraine "On Education").

Plagiarism is a theft of intellectual property, therefore original author's articles submitted to this Conference Proceedings, which contain significant textual borrowings from other articles, monographs, etc. without indicating the authorship, will be immediately rejected.

Editors must check manuscripts for text similarity using Strike Plagiarism services, initiating reports Strike Plagiarism report.

The Conference Proceedings provides the reviewers with the mentioned reports for a final decision on the originality of the manuscript.

Publishing (in full or in part) of one's own previously published scientific results as new scientific results is self-plagiarism.

To avoid this, when re-using text from their previously published articles, the author (co-authors) must format this text as a citation with an appropriate reference to the original source, in order to avoid misleading readers' perception of the uniqueness of the new article.

 

Post Duplication Policy

Cases where authors reuse large parts of their publications without clear reference to the original source are considered duplication of publications.

Examples of duplication include publishing an identical article in multiple journals or adding a small amount of new data to a previously published article.

If an author wishes to submit an article to a Conference Proceedings that has been, in full or in part, already published or will be published in another journal, the author should specify the details in the submission cover letter. The editors of the Conference Proceedings may consider such an article if the other work is published in the language of the European Union countries, and its main results and conclusions are important for the Ukrainian-speaking audience. In such cases, the Conference Proceedings may publish a translation of the article in Ukrainian with a corresponding reference to the original English-language source.

The Conference Proceedings editors support pre-publication on recognized preprint servers for review by other scholars prior to formal submission to the Conference Proceedings. It is also allowed to publish information about the research in theses (materials) of conferences, lecture texts, qualification papers before the submission of the article with full research results. Cases of such previous publications must be reported to the editors in the cover letter to the submission.

The Conference Proceedings will consider submissions containing material that previously formed part of a PhD or Doctor of Science thesis that has been published as a manuscript in accordance with the requirements of the awarding institution.

Preprints

Preprints are the author's version of a scientific manuscript before official review in a Conference Proceedings, which is stored on a public server; preprints may also be posted at any time during review. The publication of preprints is not considered a preliminary publication or duplication of publications and does not interfere with the process of consideration of the article in the Conference Proceedings.

Policy for placing, citing and communicating with the media regarding the interim results of studies published in preprints

Authors should indicate preprint placement details, including DOI and licensing terms, when submitting the original article or at any other time during review of the article in the Conference Proceedings. After the article is published, the author must update the preprint information and add a bibliographic description of the article with a DOI and a URL link to the published version of the article on the Conference Proceedings website.

Authors can choose any type of license for preprints, including Creative Commons licenses. The type of CC license you choose will affect the sharing and reuse terms of the preprint.

Preprints must be indicated in the list of used sources of articles submitted for review in the Conference Proceedings.

Authors publishing preprints are asked to adhere to the following communication policy with the media: if scientists are contacted by journalists for comment on the results of the study published in the preprint, the author must explain that these results are interim and that the conclusions may change because the article has not yet been peer-reviewed. More information to help inform the public responsibly about research results published in preprints can be found in the documents developed by the ASAPbio Preprints in the Public Eye.

Authors must have all necessary permissions for reusing previously published material and appropriate attribution.

If the author reuses images published in another publication or protected by copyright, he must provide confirmation that the previous publisher or copyright holder has given permission to republish the image.

If plagiarism, self-plagiarism, or duplication of publications is detected during review and editorial processing, the editorial office 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 Strike Plagiarism system 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 scientific collection and the article retraction procedure will be launched.