The editorial board of the journal «Clinical Oncology» strictly prohibits the appropriation of others’ ideas, texts, data, or images without proper citation and checks all manuscripts for plagiarism using Unicheck software. Reviewers notify the editorial board if they detect signs of plagiarism during the review process.
Manuscripts showing signs of plagiarism or containing text borrowings without references to the original source are not considered for publication and are rejected by the editorial board prior to the article’s publication in the journal. The editorial board reserves the right to reject an article without further explanation, as well as to take appropriate measures regarding already published materials.
The journal’s editorial board investigates every instance of plagiarism. If plagiarism or text borrowing is detected by editors or reviewers at any stage prior to the manuscript’s publication, the author is notified of the need to rewrite the text or provide a reference to the original source.
Acceptable levels of borrowing: the text must be at least 80–90% unique; if more than 30% plagiarism is detected, the manuscript will not be accepted for publication by the editorial board.
If plagiarism is detected after the article has been published, the editorial board will carry out an official retraction procedure in accordance with the international standards of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and Ukrainian legislation. Detailed information on the retraction of publications is provided in the relevant section.
The editorial board does not condone the excessive use by an author of excerpts from their own previous articles without proper citation of the original source. If an author quotes excerpts from previous texts, they must provide a reference to their own article. If the manuscript is a continuation of research whose previous results have been described earlier, this must be stated in the abstract (for example, by including the following sentence: «Previous results of this study, published in the article – provide full source information about the article»).
Plagiarism is:
- presenting someone else’s work as one’s own;
- copying text or ideas without citing the source;
- deliberately omitting a source from the reference list;
- incorrect or invalid citation of a source;
- paraphrasing whilst retaining the sentence structure without attribution;
- translating text from another language without indicating the original source;
- excessive citation with references, where the borrowed material constitutes the majority of the article.
