Plagiarism, autoplagics and duplication policy

The Editorial Committee will be guided by the list of procedures established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts) and will initiate the relevant actions.

Anti-plagiarism programs measure percentages of correspondence with other text in the same language, so they only control the condition of originality in one language.

To avoid the publication of articles that register in practices of plagiarism, autoplagics, duplication, fragmentation, etc., the Perspectives of Public Policies Magazine implemented the following procedure:

At the time of the presentation of an article, the authors are asked to explain whether they have already published other works derived from the same investigation and, in those cases in which other articles have been published, they are requested to describe the differences and similarities in relation to the article submitted for review.
Additionally, Internet search tools are used, in which other works of the authors are tracked (to avoid duplication) and the title, fragments of the summary, the methodological section and the results of the article submitted for review are checked, with the purpose of detecting possible correspondences and thus avoiding practices of plagiarism and autoplagium.