Anti-plagiarism policy

1. Plagiarism
2. False data

 

1. PLAGIARISM

All papers received by the Editorial Committee are submitted to a review of coincidences with respect to other papers, verifying the authenticity of the article with the software programs “safe assign and Turnitin”. If no plagiarism is detected, the paper is assigned peer reviewers according to its subject matter, to continue with the evaluation process. If plagiarism is detected in a manuscript, we will proceed as follows:

• Obvious plagiarism (e.g., presentation of a large portion of text or data without explicit attribution to the original source(s), presenting it as one's own). The editor will contact the author, notifying him/her of the rejection of the article along with the evidence of plagiarism. The Editorial Committee will evaluate the possibility of notifying the entity to which the author(s) report affiliation, as well as the author(s) of the plagiarized text.
• Minor plagiarism (e.g., small fragments of text or sentences where the reference(s) is/are misquoted). The editor will contact the author(s), requesting corrections. Once they are received, if the corrections are satisfactory, the editorial process will continue. Otherwise, the article will be definitively rejected and the author(s) of the manuscript will be notified of the decision.

In case plagiarism is detected after the publication of the article, the Editorial Committee will study the actions to be taken according to what is indicated by the COPE, and stipulated in the Quality Policy of the journal Perspectives in Intelligence.

 

2.FALSE DATA

Any article or manuscript submitted for consideration for publication in Perspectives in Intelligence should be based on real data and truthful information, obtained by the author(s) themselves and indicating when it is part of data provided by secondary or tertiary sources, in which case the source should be explicitly mentioned. Likewise, the data must be given an objective and scientific treatment, without submitting them to any type of procedure that alters or biases them to show results favorable to the research when, in reality, they show results that are partially or totally deviating from the objective of the research presented.

In the event that peer reviewers of a manuscript or readers of a published article suspect that a paper is based on false or adulterated data, they should notify the editor of Perspectives in Intelligence, in which case an investigation will be carried out according to the criteria established by the COPE.