Plagiarism Policy

The editorial board of the journal «Grail of Science» accepts for publication only original articles, the materials of which have not been published before and have not been submitted for publication in another journal. One of the most important and obligatory principles of editorial policy is the fight against plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Plagiarism is the publication (partially or completely) of scientific (creative) results obtained by others as the results of their own research (creativity) and / or reproduction of published texts by other authors without indication of authorship. Autoplagiarism (self-plagiarism) is the provision in the materials of the manuscript of their own previously published scientific results as new results.

The editors review articles and check for plagiarism. Articles in the publication are checked for plagiarism using StrikePlagiarism.com software from the Polish company Plagiat.pl.

The similarity check report is analyzed separately for each manuscript using COPE flowcharts, if used. If plagiarism / self-plagiarism is found, the authors will be informed.

Overlaps cannot be considered plagiarism in the methods section if the description of the methods is common to this type of research.

The editorial board of the journal «Grail of Science» analyzes any case of plagiarism on the merits. If plagiarism or textual borrowings are discovered by editors or reviewers at any stage before the publication of the manuscript, the author (s) are warned to review and correct the text, or to provide a reference to the original source. If the plagiarism is more than 25%, the article can be rejected.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for copyright to use illustrations, tables, drawings taken from other authors and / or sources. The permit must be placed under each such element.