ANTI-PLAGIARISM POLICY

Plagiarism, understood as the use of ideas, words, data, or material produced by third parties without their consent, can occur in various forms, including text, illustrations, music, computer coding, material downloaded from web pages, other manuscripts or digital media, as well as unpublished material (courses, presentations, and gray literature).

Virtualis only publishes and promotes original, novel, relevant, and socially transferable works. Therefore, it does not accept percentages of plagiarism in its manuscripts and rigorously proceeds to review submissions sent through the OJS platform using professional anti-plagiarism tools, especially Ithenticate and CrossCheck.

Works that present total or partial plagiarism rates are systematically rejected. This decision is communicated by attaching a transparent plagiarism report, both quantitative and qualitative, without the option for resubmission, as these actions are considered unacceptable and punishable practices.

Reviewers, authors, or the scientific reader community may raise suspicions of plagiarism that will be analyzed by the Editorial Board, following COPE's correction and retraction guidelines.

Duplication and redundant publications

Duplicate, redundant publications, or self-plagiarism occur when a work, or substantial parts of it, is published more than once by an author(s) without identifying plagiarism, but without reference to the original work that justifies its extension or complementarity. This practice can occur in the same or different languages. Virtualis does not admit substantial overlap between publications, unless it is considered, from an editorial point of view, that the manuscript strengthens and extends academic discourse, that approval has been obtained from the publisher to which the original publication subscribes, and that the citation to the original source is included. Our readers, reviewers, and editors should raise any suspicion of duplicate or redundant publication by contacting the Editor-in-Chief (editor@grupoVirtualis.com), who will transmit the case to the Editorial Board for analysis and resolution.

When authors submit manuscripts to our journal, these should not be under consideration, accepted for publication, or in "OnlineFirst" format in another journal or publisher. However, depositing a preprint on the author's personal website or in an institutional repository institutionally adhered to by the authors will not be considered prior or duplicate publication. Authors should follow our "OnlineFirst" policy regarding preprint archives and maintaining the registered version on our platform.

Any manuscript derived from a thesis must be reworked and written according to the journal's Author Guidelines. When citing information collected in the thesis or reusing figures and resources introduced in the document, authors must avoid self-plagiarism by properly referencing adapted extracts. If a thesis has been published by a publisher and is publicly accessible, permission from the publisher may be required to submit it to the journal. This information must be notified to the Editorial Board through the "Comments to the Editor" space on the platform. Similarly, Virtualis authors who wish to include their publication(s) in their thesis must notify the journal prior to defense.