Anti-plagiarism policy

The Editorial Board of the scientific collected papers “Optoelectronics and Semiconductor Technology” adheres to the principles of academic integrity and does not allow the publication of materials containing plagiarism, self-plagiarism, improper borrowing, fabrication, or falsification of research results. All manuscripts submitted to the Editorial Board must be original scientific works of the authors, not previously published and not simultaneously submitted to other publications.

Plagiarism is understood as the complete or partial use of texts, ideas, research results, graphic materials, tables, formulas, methods, software code, or other intellectual property objects without proper reference to the source. Self-plagiarism is understood as the reuse by an author of substantial fragments of their own previously published materials without appropriate citation or without sufficient scientific justification.

The Editorial Board checks manuscripts for textual similarities and signs of academic misconduct using available software tools, expert analysis, and editorial assessment. In this process, not only the percentage of textual similarities is taken into account, but also their nature, scope, sources of origin, the presence of correct references, and the scientific appropriateness of using the cited or borrowed fragments.

Violations of the anti-plagiarism policy include:

• verbatim or near-verbatim reproduction of fragments of other authors’ texts without quotation marks and reference to the source;

• use of ideas, conclusions, experimental data, images, tables, schemes, formulas, or methods of other authors without proper citation;

• translation of fragments from foreign-language sources without indicating the original source;

• republication of one’s own previously published materials without reference to the previous publication;

• submission of the same manuscript or substantially similar materials to several publications simultaneously;

• artificial paraphrasing of another author’s text while preserving its content, structure, and logic without reference to the source;

• fabrication, falsification, or manipulative presentation of research results;

• use of texts prepared by other persons or services without proper disclosure of the contribution and responsibility of the authors.

If minor improper borrowings or technical citation errors are detected, the manuscript may be returned to the authors for revision. The authors are obliged to eliminate the identified deficiencies, add the necessary references, clarify citations, or revise the relevant fragments of the text.

If substantial signs of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, data falsification, or another serious violation of academic integrity are detected in the manuscript, the Editorial Board has the right to reject the manuscript without further consideration. If necessary, the Editorial Board may request explanations from the authors or inform the institution where the research was carried out.

If a violation of the anti-plagiarism policy is detected after publication of an article, the Editorial Board considers the issue of publishing a correction, editorial notice, retraction, or withdrawal of the publication. The decision is made by the Editorial Board, taking into account the nature of the violation, the authors’ explanations, expert conclusions, and the standards of publication ethics.

The authors bear full responsibility for the originality of the submitted material, the correctness of citation, the reliability of results, and compliance with the rights of third parties. Submission of a manuscript to the scientific collected papers “Optoelectronics and Semiconductor Technology” means that the authors agree with this anti-plagiarism policy and confirm that the work complies with the requirements of academic integrity.

All manuscripts submitted to the Editorial Board of “Optoelectronics and Semiconductor Technology” are routinely checked for textual similarities and signs of plagiarism. For this purpose, the Editorial Board uses installed plagiarism detection software Antiplagiarism: http://www.antiplagiarism.net, as well as available online preliminary checking tools, including Small SEO Tools Plagiarism Checker: http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker. The results of automated similarity checks are considered together with expert editorial assessment of the manuscript content, since the final decision on the presence or absence of academic misconduct is made not only on the basis of the quantitative similarity score, but also with regard to the nature of the detected overlaps, the correctness of citation, and the scientific relevance of the borrowed fragments.