Plagiarism Policy

The REIDU Editorial Team is very strict about plagiarism. Adopting the ideas, information, or work of others without giving due credit is unfair and wrong. Copying a sentence from someone else's article, or even one of your own that has been previously published, without proper citation is considered plagiarism.

 

The Editorial Committee of REIDU reserves the right to reject the revision process of a manuscript, if minor or major plagiarism is detected and may even cancel the publication after the complaint of the victim(s) of plagiarism. The journal uses Plagiarism software to detect this malpractice.

 

The journal considers as plagiarism the practices that are listed and explained below:

 

Direct plagiarism. This type is incurred when:

There is an omission of authorship and what is taken from another text is not indicated with quotation marks.

Minimal changes are made to another's text (sentence structure is changed, lowercase is substituted for uppercase or vice versa, synonyms are used, etc.) and it is presented as original.

 

Plagiarism due to the inappropriate use of paraphrases, is done when:

Although authorship is noted, the original text is reproduced with a few changes that do not constitute paraphrases.

 

Complex plagiarism using a reference is committed when:

The original authorship reference exists, but the pages of the source are indicated inaccurately.

Paraphrasing in which long texts are summarized, but with little or no indication that they are paraphrases.

Absence of quotation marks in words and phrases of the original text that are reproduced verbatim.

 

Plagiarism with single quotes, is done when:

A verbatim quotation continues to be reproduced once quotation marks have been closed or it is omitted that the previous phrases correspond to the same quotation.

 

Paraphrasing as plagiarism occurs when:

There is paraphrasing and the original source reference is not noted.

The paraphrasing is continuous and extensive, no material is added that allows interaction or enriches the information, even though the source is mentioned.

Academic papers – which require original thinking and critical reflection on other people's points of view – become texts that do not rise above the repetition of other academic texts.

Paraphrased passages are not clearly identified as such.

 

Plagiarism is not considered when:

It does not dominate over the work of the writer.

It is used to allow the author to critically interact with another person's points of view.

The argument of the original text is rewritten in different words.

 

"Self-plagiarism" or recycling fraud is committed when:

The appearance of a job is changed and it is presented as if it were a different one.

The indication that the work is being recycled, that is, that it is a previously published work but with corrections or new additions, is omitted.

 

It is not considered self-plagiarism when:

 

The previous work is the basis for a new contribution, and key parts must be repeated to explain and defend the new arguments.

The author considers that what he has already said cannot be said in a better way for the new publication.

The repetition does not exceed 30% of the original work.