Plagiarism Prevention and Manuscript Originality Screening Policy
The «Trends in Physical Education and Sport» is committed to upholding the principles of academic integrity and preventing all forms of plagiarism. Every manuscript submitted to the journal must constitute original scholarly work and must not have been previously published elsewhere.
When using the scholarly arguments, ideas, text, data, tables, or illustrations of other researchers, authors must properly acknowledge and cite the original sources. The use of another person’s text, ideas, or research findings without appropriate attribution, as well as presenting another author’s work as one’s own with only minor modifications, constitutes plagiarism.
The substantial reuse of an author’s previously published work without appropriate citation of the original publication may constitute self-plagiarism. Previously published articles, or substantial parts thereof, must not be resubmitted as new scholarly contributions without proper disclosure and justification.
Before being sent for peer review, all manuscripts submitted to the journal are screened for originality and textual similarity using the Antiplagiat system.
Manuscripts must achieve an originality rate of at least 70%. However, meeting this threshold does not in itself guarantee acceptance for publication. The Editorial Office evaluates not only the overall originality rate but also the nature, extent, sources, and context of the identified textual similarities.
Manuscripts that fail to meet the minimum originality requirement may be returned to the authors for revision or rejected. Revised manuscripts are subject to repeat screening using the Antiplagiat system.
Properly formatted quotations, bibliographic references, titles of legal and regulatory documents, archival references and document identifiers, official institutional names, texts of historical documents, and commonly used scholarly expressions may be considered separately when evaluating textual similarities, in accordance with the journal’s policy.
The Editorial Office pays particular attention to the following forms of academic misconduct:
- Using another author’s text, ideas, or research findings without proper attribution.
- Presenting another author’s work as one’s own by making only minor changes to the wording or sentence structure.
- Reusing substantial portions of one’s own previously published work without citing the original publication.
- Submitting the same manuscript to more than one scholarly journal simultaneously.
- Presenting previously published work, or a substantial part thereof, as a new scholarly contribution.
- Fabricating sources, quotations, archival documents, or research data.
- Providing false or misleading information about sources, archival materials, or quotations.
- Misappropriating another person’s research findings or copyrighted material.
If substantial or unjustified textual similarities are identified, the Editorial Office may request a written explanation from the author or require revisions to the manuscript.
If plagiarism or another serious breach of publication ethics is confirmed, the manuscript will be rejected. Where appropriate, the Editorial Office may notify the institution with which the author is affiliated of the identified misconduct.
If plagiarism is identified after publication, the journal will conduct an appropriate investigation and provide the author with an opportunity to respond. Depending on the findings, the journal may publish a correction, an expression of concern, or a retraction notice.
All suspected cases of plagiarism are handled objectively and confidentially. In addressing such cases, the Editorial Office follows recognized principles of publication ethics and relevant guidance issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).