Policy Document

“Esculapio” follows a strict policy regarding research misconduct which includes data falsification, fabrication and plagiarism. Plagiarism refers to intentional copying of others work without proper attribution or reference and includes self-plagiarism which refers to reuse of one’s own copyrighted material without proper attribution to the original source, mosaic plagiarism of mix and match of yours and others work, and salami slicing.
All authors are required to adhere to high principles of research conduct as per “COPE” and “ICMJE” guidelines
“Esculapio” follow strict policy in case of plagiarism before, during or after the publication process by the editorial board member, reviewer, author etc. If the article has more than 19% simmilarity than it is returned to author for correction.
The submitted manuscript is checked for the plagiarism before starting the review process by the Esculapio office using anti-plagiarism software “Turnitin”.
Anti-plagiarism software is employed to check the originality of an article. The manuscript that is submitted is understood to be unpublished work and is not considered for publication elsewhere.
Duplicate publication of the submitted manuscript in whole or in parts will be considered as a breaching of plagiarism policy and is not welcome by the journal.