Journal Publication Ethics

Ethical editorial policy

Editorial policy of the scientific publication "Pedagogical Education: Theory and Practice. Psychology. Pedagogy" is aimed at compliance with ethical standards adopted by the international scientific community. The activity of the editorial board in this direction is based on the recommendations of the Committee of Publishing Ethics (Committee on Publication Ethics), as well as the valuable experience of reputable international magazines and publishers.

An important condition for accepting an article for publication is the availability of new original scientific results that were not published anywhere before.

If the materials were published before, the author must provide the editorial board with a bibliographic reference on previous publications and justify the relevance of the publication of a new version, explaining the nature of additions and changes to the last version of the article.

Any controversial issues (financial, academic, personal, etc.) are carefully considered by members of the editorial board. In case of confirmation of suspicions related to possible plagiarism or falsification of results, the article is unconditionally rejected.

The journal allows authors to retain copyright without restriction.

Editorial board members and reviewers are not authors of more than 25% of the articles in any issue/volume.

All relations on publishing ethics issues that arise between the authors and the editorial board of the publication and are not regulated by this document are governed by internationally accepted standards COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).

Screening for Plagiarism

The concept of plagiarism is determined as follows:

Plagiarism – promulgation (publication), fully or partially, of another's work under the name of a person who is not the author of this work

Self-plagiarism – re-publishing of large text parts from own scientific papers by the author without stating the fact of their prior or simultaneous publication

Textual plagiarism – full or partial copying of text fragments (modified or not) in the articles, theses, reports, books, manuscripts, theses, and so on.

The following actions clear characterize the process of plagiarism:

  1. turning in someone else’s work as your own; 
  2. copying another person’s words or ideas without reference to its work; 
  3. intentional omission the quote from the reference list; providing incorrect source data (such as "broken" links); 
  4. changing words order, while preserving the overall structure of a sentence;
  5. copying large parts of text or ideas that makes up the majority of new article.

Plagiarism is classified in the following categories:

  1. the exact verbatim copying (Copy & Paste) without a proper bibliographic reference to the borrowed fragments;
  2. copying with modifications in language, vocabulary and technological interpretation (the words switching, replacing letters, numbers, etc.);
  3. style plagiarism;
  4. translation from another language;
  5. idea plagiarism.

 

Use of AI tools by manuscript authors

Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, do not meet our authorship requirements. The attribution of authorship carries a responsibility for the paper that cannot be adequately applied to LLMs. The use of an LLM in research should be appropriately documented in the Methods section of the manuscript, or in a suitable alternative part if a Methods section is not available.

 

Procedure:

  1. Executive editor check all submitted manuscripts by Unichecksoftware solution at the stage of initial review.
  2. If plagiarism is detected - the Editors have the right to reject the submitted manuscript.
  3. The authors are responsible for the accuracy of the information presented in the articles, the accuracy of the names, last names and citations.
  4. In case of finding out plagiarism authors have the responsibility according to the current legislation of Ukraine (Law of Ukraine «On Copyright and Related Rights»).