Plagiarism and redundant submission

Plagiarism is unacknowledged copying, or an attempt to misattribute original authorship, whether of ideas, text, data, or figures. Plagiarism applies to both published and unpublished ideas, and electronic (e.g. internet publications, e-mail) as well as print versions of material. Plagiarism applies to material originated by other researchers, or the authors' own (self-plagiarism).

Original wording taken directly from publications by other researchers should appear in quotation marks with the source of the quotation cited. Due care must be taken to ensure appropriate attribution and citation when paraphrasing and summarizing the work of others. Ideas received in the form of personal communications and comments from reviewers, colleagues, or peers should be acknowledged. Copyrighted material (e.g. tables, figures or extensive quotations) should be reproduced only with appropriate permission and acknowledgement, and the author must provide documentation of permission for the material to be re-published.

Self-plagiarism, which includes text recycling, occurs when sections of the same text, or figures, appear in more than one of an author's own publications. We understand that text or figure recycling may be unavoidable for some specific portions of a manuscript, for instance in the background, methodological or analytical descriptions. Re-use of text or figure is accepted if legitimate, of minor amount, reported transparently and properly attributed, and in compliance with any copyright policy. We encourage minor modifications of text and images before re-use and appropriate citation. The re-use of data without clear scientific justification and transparency will be considered as duplicate or redundant publication.

Duplicate or redundant submission or publication occurs when authors submit or publish the same intellectual material more than once. Publication of an identical paper in multiple journals, or publication of a paper that overlaps substantially with one already published, without clear scientific justification and transparent reference to the previous publication, will be considered as author misconduct.

Geomorphica editors will assume that the journal has full permission to publish every part of the submitted material, including illustrations. Authors have the responsibility to secure permission to include any reproduced material subject to copyright, and will affirm this permission during submission.

During the quality check for initial submissions, Managing Editors conduct plagiarism check using a combination of online plagiarism checkers (e.g. Grammarly Plagiarism Checker and PaperOwl Plagiarism Checker) with manual evaluation to assess if checkers results are making sense, asking editors for advice if needed. Furthermore, we encourage associate editors and reviewers to disclose any detected or suspected plagiarism.

Plagiarism or duplicate submission will result in manuscript rejection, or, if detected post-publication, in retraction.