A specific process is followed to manage cases of plagiarism. PHA follows the guidelines contained in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) flowcharts.

 

For suspected plagiarism in a published article

• The person who advised us of the situation is informed about the process to be followed.
• The articles are compared to check the degree of copying.
• All Editors of PHA are informed and asked for their comments.
• The corresponding author of the article in question is contacted, with documentary evidence of plagiarism and asking for a response.
• If the authors are judged to have engaged in plagiarism
  - The editor of the journal in which the original plagiarised article was published and the authors of the plagiarised article are informed
  - PHA publishes an official retraction of the paper
  - the online version of the PHA article is withdrawn from the Ingenta host site, and
  - PHA will not publish any article by any of the authors concerned for a period of 5 years.

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