Anti-plagiarism Policy

Authors submitting manuscripts for publication in the journal "Reports of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine" agree that the article is their original work, has not been previously published elsewhere, and is not currently submitted or under consideration for publication in any other periodical.

All submitted manuscripts undergo a mandatory check for textual borrowings and plagiarism. The uniqueness level of the text is determined utilizing StrikePlagiarism software. The final decision to accept a manuscript for review or reject it is made by the Editorial Board based on an expert evaluation of the similarity report.

The necessity, accuracy, and completeness of references and bibliographic data are also assessed by independent reviewers during the peer review process. If clear facts of deliberate plagiarism are detected during the pre-review or review stage, the Editorial Board rejects the manuscript without the right of resubmission.

Forms of plagiarism include:

  • Verbatim copying or close paraphrasing of any materials in any volume without proper attribution and citation of the source;

  • Using borrowed images, drawings, photographs, tables, graphs, charts, or any other forms of graphical representation of information without a clear reference to the source;

  • Using materials without the written permission of the authors or copyright holders who prohibit the use of their works without special agreement.

In cases of incorrect or inappropriate borrowings, each instance is evaluated individually by the Editorial Board. Forms of incorrect borrowing include:

  • Absence of graphical presentation (quotation marks) for verbatim cited text, despite the presence of a citation;

  • Incorrect or incomplete bibliographic descriptions of sources that hinder their clear identification;

  • Citing a secondary source instead of the primary source without explicitly stating this fact;

  • Absence of text citations for sources listed in the references section;

  • Excessive citation (even with proper references and quotation marks), the volume of which is not justified by the genre, objectives, or scientific context of the article.

If a proven fact of plagiarism is detected in an article that has already been published, the Editorial Board initiates an official retraction procedure in accordance with the journal's Retraction Policy, which complies with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). In such cases, the original PDF file of the article is not completely deleted from the website archive; instead, it remains preserved but is watermarked as "RETRACTED" on each page, and a formal retraction note explaining the reasons is published on the article's webpage.