Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Anti-plagiarism policy
Gramma maintains an anti-plagiarism policy oriented to guarantee that all published works are original and unpublished.
To this end, and due to the limitations of automatic plagiarism detection programs with the Spanish language, the journal implements the following procedure for each manuscript received:
- When submitting the article: authors are asked to declare that the article has not been previously published or sent to other journals for evaluation and that they have followed the journal’s guidelines which state that articles submitted must be original.
- Upon receiving the article: the editor uses Internet search tools to trace and compare data, results and writing aspects in other works of the same or different authors to corroborate originality and avoid plagiarism practices.
- When sending the article for evaluation: reviewers are asked to alert the journal about possible indicators of plagiarism with works previously published in other sources, based on their knowledge of the sources and literature on the subject.
In case of plagiarism, Gramma follows the guidelines provided by the Code of Coexistence of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Oriental Studies of the USAL.
The journal considers the following practices as plagiarism:
Direct plagiarism
- Minimal changes are made and a text from another author is presented as its own.
- The authorship of fragments (sentences or paragraphs) that correspond to other author’s texts is omitted (whether they are reproduced verbatim and without quotation marks or presented in paraphrases).
Plagiarism in direct quotations
- Quotation marks are not used to indicate fragments (sentences or paragraphs) that are reproduced verbatim.
- Only part of the fragment (sentences or paragraphs) that is reproduced verbatim is indicated by quotation marks (it is omitted that the sentences preceding and/or following the passage in quotation marks also correspond to the quoted text).
Plagiarism in paraphrases
- Changes made do not substantially modify the wording of the original fragment (sentences or paragraphs), so they do not constitute paraphrasing.
- Paraphrasing is extensive, and the paraphrased passages are not clearly differentiated from the original passages.
- Paraphrasing is continuous and no materials, own ideas or critical reflections that allow interaction or enrich the information available in other published works are added.
It is not considered plagiarism when:
- Passages that are reproduced do not dominate over the original contributions of the writer.
- Incorporation of passages from others is used to allow the author to interact critically with the views of another person.
- The argument of the original text retains its meaning but is reworked with different words or characteristics.
Self-plagiarism or recycling fraud:
- Minimal changes are made to one’s own text and it is presented as if it were a different work.
- The indication that it is a previously published work recycled with corrections or new additions is omitted.
Self-plagiarism is not considered when:
- The previous work is the basis for a new contribution, and key parts must be repeated to explain and to defend the new arguments.
- The author considers that what has been developed in previous works cannot be presented in a better way for the new publication.
- The repeated passages do not exceed 30% of the original work.
