Plagiarism procedures

Plagiarism Procedures

CLEIej is committed to the highest ethical standards, and regards plagiarism or attempted plagiarism as a serious offense.

The procedure for dealing with suspected plagiarism cases is the following one:

• When a reviewer or editor detects a suspected case of plagiarism, he/she notifies it to the Editor-in-Chief.
• The Editor-in-Chief and two members of the Board of CLEI are designated as members of a committee which will revise the evidence presented, and will contact the authors in order to receive his/her discharges.
• If the committee decides there has been attempted plagiarism, it will impose upon the offending parties sanctions that can include banning authors from publishing in CLEIej for a number of years, and other suitable measures. If the paper has already been published by CLEIej, a retraction will be published.
• CLEIej will include in its homepage the names of authors found guilty of plagiarism, and the applied sanction.

Authors which according with the previous rules have been found guilty of plagiarism, and have received sanctions from CLEIej, will be included in this page.