Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism Prevention and Combat Policy

The journal Semina: Exact and Technological Sciences conducts its publications in accordance with the ethical principles established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), aiming to promote scientific integrity, transparency, and the strengthening of editorial processes. In this regard, it adopts a policy of preventing and combating academic plagiarism, committed to intellectual originality and respect for copyright.

Types of Plagiarism

The journal recognizes various forms of academic misconduct as plagiarism, including but not limited to:

• Direct plagiarism: literal copying of excerpts, data, tables, images, or graphs without proper attribution, quotation marks, or citation.

• Indirect plagiarism: paraphrasing of ideas from an original text without giving due credit to the author.

• Source plagiarism: using references from secondary sources as if they were from direct (primary) consultation, without acknowledging the intermediary.

• Permitted plagiarism: presenting or signing someone else's work as one’s own, with the consent of the actual author.

• Self-plagiarism: reusing one’s own previously published content as if it were new and unpublished, without proper citation or contextualization.

Source: INCA (2025).

Verification Procedures

All manuscripts submitted to the journal are evaluated using the iThenticate similarity detection software to identify excerpts that may indicate plagiarism or improper use of sources. When content is found to be improperly referenced:

• The manuscript will be returned to the authors for correction in cases of minor inconsistencies;

• In more serious cases, the manuscript will be immediately rejected.

Author Responsibility

By submitting a manuscript to Semina: Exact and Technological Sciences, authors affirm, under their responsibility, that:

• The work is original and unpublished;

• All external sources and contributions are properly referenced;

• There is no copyright conflict;

• If previously published content by the authors is used, it is properly cited and contextualized.

Consequences of Plagiarism

The identification of plagiarism at any stage of the editorial process may result in the following measures:

• In serious cases, the manuscript will be immediately rejected and the authors will be formally notified;

• If plagiarism is discovered after publication, the article will be removed from the journal’s website and publicly retracted, upon decision by the Editorial Board.