POLICY OF SCREENING FOR PLAGIARISM
Papers submitted to Edisciences Journals (Arguments of Geriatric Oncology - AGO, Journal of Cancer Rehabilitation - JCR, Supportive Palliative Cancer Care - SPCC, International Journal of Integrative Oncology - IJIO) will be screened for plagiarism using plagiarism checker x plagiarism detection tools. Edisciences Journals (Arguments of Geriatric Oncology - AGO, Journal of Cancer Rehabilitation - JCR, Supportive Palliative Cancer Care - SPCC) will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
Before sending articles to reviewers, they are first checked for the similarity/plagiarism tool, by a member of the editorial team. Documents presented to Edisciences Journals (Arguments of Geriatric Oncology - AGO, Journal of Cancer Rehabilitation - JCR, Supportive Palliative Cancer Care - SPCC , International Journal of Integrative Oncology - IJIO) must have a similarity level of less than 20%.
Plagiarism is the exposure of another person's thoughts or words as if they were yours, without permission, credit or recognition, or for not correctly quoting the sources. Plagiarism can take different forms, from the literal copy to the paraphrasing of another's work. In order to correctly judge whether an author has plagiarized, we emphasize the following possible situations:
· An author can literally copy the work of another author, copying word for word, in whole or in part, without permission, recognizing or quoting the original source. This practice can be identified by comparing the original source and the manuscript/work suspected of plagiarism.
· The substantive copy implies that an author reproduces a substantial part of another author, without permission, recognition or citation. The term substantive can be understood both in terms of quality as quantity, it is often used in the context of intellectual property. Quality refers to the relative value of the copied text in proportion to the work as a whole.
Paraphrase involves taking ideas, words or phrases from a source and creating them into new sentences within the writing. This practice becomes unethical when the author does not quote correctly or does not recognize the original work/author.