Combating plagiarism

Plagiarism – assigning authorship to someone else's or work on someone else's discovery, invention or rationalization proposal and the use of their works by someone else's work without attribution.

During the manuscript submission for publication in the Journal of Lviv Polytechnic National University. Series of Economics and Management Issues, the authors agree that the article given for publication may be placed in the electronic database with the obligatory indication of Authorship and Copyright notice in full by Author. The text of the work needs to fully restore external sources of information – in the form of literature sources. It is required to properly execute borrowing in the form of quotations or specific references to the source in Author(s) Manuscript. Any forms of plagiarism are unacceptable, so the Journal consider them as Unethical Behavior and as Unacceptable for Further Cooperation.

The Editorial Board of the Journal of Lviv Polytechnic National University. Series of Economics and Management Issues condemns such forms of plagiarism:

  • Complete plagiarism. It happens when a researcher takes a manuscript or study that someone else created, and submits it under his or her name.
  • Publication of copyrighted works, the contents of which holds some or all of the other material by writers in the language, vocabulary, technological interpretation. Such plagiarism changes author scheme sign system (some specific placement of letters, numbers), allowing plagiarists to use it as an original for significant system work.
  • Self-plagiarism, when an author reuses significant portions of his or her previously published work without attribution.
  • False plagiarism which includes: errors in links and identifying citations; links to non-existent source of information; mistakes in bringing accurate facts without specifying the source (if it is not a personal research); errors in the presentation of the structure and content sources.

Editors strongly condemns all manifestations of plagiarism in Manuscripts of Articles, infringement of Copyright and Scientific Ethics. In the case of investigation in the Article more than 25% non-original text without links to relevant primary source and use of quotes, it will be qualified as one that contains plagiarism (see. "Requirements for the Articles"). In this case, the Manuscript of the Article is no longer will be seen, and the Author received the First Warning.

Authors of Articles which will be re-discovered plagiarism will no longer be publi­shed in the Journal of Lviv Polytechnic National University. Series of Economics and Management Issues.