Plagiarism

Culturas Científicas seeks to be a space for discussion and dialogue for different disciplines related to science studies. As stated in our Aims & Scope, and in our Author Guidelines, we only accept unpublished manuscripts. Below we specify our policy regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.  

  • We understand plagiarism as the unreferenced use of the published or unpublished ideas of another researcher, passing them off as one's own1.

  • We understand self-plagiarism as an author's attempt to use their own previous research and present it in another publication as something new and original2.

Our journal, in its commitment to the growth of knowledge and the ethical integrity of scientific research, emphatically rejects both practices. In turn, and as our ethical standards show, we are committed to monitoring them in order not to allow their proliferation in our publication.

To achieve this objective, you can find in our Author Guidelines an extensive explanation and examples of the citation standard that we use: APA 7th Edition (2019). In turn, every manuscript received goes through the TURNITIN Originality plagiarism detection software in its first evaluation phase (see the workflow in our evaluation policy). It is a condition to continue the double-blind peer review that these reports do not show plagiarism/self-plagiarism or give satisfactory explanations if this is the case. On the other hand, and if the articles are 'accepted with observations' and undergo considerable changes, they will be tested again by this software, conditioning their publication accordingly.

Culturas Científicas closely follows the COPE recommendations regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Upon suspicion that the author(s) incurred in these practices, the evaluation will be stopped, and the main author will be contacted, attaching the information collected. Once notice has been given, the authors will have a period of 30 days to discharge, clarify or amend the references of the manuscript. If the explanations are not sufficient, if the practices persist, or if there is a refusal to correct the manuscript, the Editorial Committee will decide within a period of 20 days whether to take pertinent measures. These can include the final rejection of the manuscript, making it impossible for the authors to submit new articles for consideration in the future or even notifying the original authors.     

There will be a written record of the procedures described above and of the decisions made by the Editorial Committee. The final decisions made by the Committee in this regard are not appealable.