Anti-plagiarism policy

ANTI-PLAGIARISM POLICY

The journal conducts similarity analysis on all manuscripts submitted through plagiarism detection software. Plagiarism or self-plagiarism occurs when there is inadequate citation of one's own or others' information used in the manuscript to justify, present results, discuss, or conclude ideas within the manuscript.

Once plagiarism behavior is suspected, authors will be informed and requested to provide an explanation, giving them the opportunity to clarify the situation. Based on the author's explanation, the editor will decide whether the article continues in the editorial process for publication. A published article may be retracted from the journal if it is found to have violated ethical standards regarding intellectual property and plagiarism.

Plagiarism includes:

- Directly copying text from other sources without attribution.
- Copying ideas, images, or data from other sources without attribution.
- Reusing text from previous own publications without attribution or agreement from the editor (see COPE guidelines on text recycling and the text recycling guide published by the Text Recycling Research Project).
Exception: Reuse of text from the methods section of the author's previous publications is accepted, with proper attribution.
- Using an idea from another source with slightly modified language without attribution.

Forms of plagiarism considered by the Nexus journal include:

Direct Plagiarism: Evident when sentences or paragraphs are taken directly without mentioning the author of the text and without proper citation using quotation marks.
Self-Plagiarism: Evident when the author modifies the appearance of an already published manuscript (changes in structure, changes in title, or changes in the order of ideas, etc.) and presents it as unpublished without making explicit and complete mention of the publication's data.
Paraphrasing: Evident when minimal changes are made to the original text (whether in sentences or paragraphs) and presented as unpublished work to the journal. There is no mention of the original author.

PLAGIARISM PREVENTION

Nexus utilizes Turnitin software to detect cases of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. This software compares content with a database of periodical publications, the Internet, and a comprehensive database of articles. By uploading manuscripts submitted to the journal to Turnitin, it generates a similarity report highlighting the percentage of overlap between the uploaded article and the published material. Any case of content overlap is further analyzed to detect suspicions of plagiarism according to the editor's editorial policies. Nexus journal allows a maximum similarity of 25% for a manuscript to be considered for publication or not.

DECLARATION

Upon submission of the article to the Nexus journal through the OJS portal, authors must accompany the submission with guarantees of the manuscript's originality. Here, authors certify that they are fully aware that plagiarism is illegal and incorrect and that the use of another person's work or idea not properly cited may lead to the exclusion of the manuscript for consideration in Nexus.

Here, authors also express and certify that the manuscript is original and their own, constructed in adherence to academic and scientific rules of citation, authorship attribution, and acknowledgment of the support and contribution of third parties who, while not direct authors, contributed to its creation and development.