Policy of Plagiarism

The JFCG does not accept manuscripts that exceeds 20% of content similarity (plagiarism). The plagiarism test is performed by using Turnitin program.

Published articles that the editors determine to include plagiarized content will be removed from the online archives and the readers will be notified of the action in the subsequent issue of the Journal. Furthermore, articles received from an author determined to have at any time submitted plagiarized material will not be considered for future publication in the Journal.

The JFCG adopt the plagiarism definition of the ministerial decree n ° 1082 of December 27, 2020.

The decree considered plagiarism, every act carried out by student or researcher or who participates in an act of consistent falsification of results or fraud in scientific works, or in any other scientific or pedagogical publications.

For this purpose, the following are considered plagiarism:

- Quoting ideas, information, text, paragraph or excerpt from a published article, books, magazines, studies, reports, or websites, or paraphrasing them without mentioning their original sources and owners.

- Quoting excerpts from a document without placing it between quotation marks. Without mentioning its source and original owners,

- Using private data without specifying its source and original owners,

- The use of proof or inference without mentioning its source and original owners,

- Publishing a text, article, publication or report completed by an authority or institution and considering it a personal work

- The use of a specific artistic production or the inclusion of maps, pictures, papistic curves, statistical tables or charts in a text or article without indicating their source and original owners,

- Translating from one language ​​into another language wholly or partially, without mentioning the translator and the source,

- The researcher who includes his name in research or any scientific work without participating in its preparation.

- to include a name of another researcher who did not participate in the research work. With or without his permission, in aim to publish the work based on his scientific reputation.

- assign to students or other parties to complete scientific work for adoption in a research project, or to produce a scientific book, pedagogical publication, or scientific report.

- Using students’ works and notes as interventions in national and international forums, or to publish scientific articles in journals.

- The inclusion of expert’s names as members of a scientific committees of national or international forums or in scientific journals in aim to gain credibility without approval and written commitment of their owners, or without their actual participation in the work.