Anti-plagiarism

The journal Comunicación y Hombre verifies the originality of all articles and texts received. The author accepts that the document be examined with the aim of avoiding plagiarism and thus promoting academic integrity.

Comunicación y Hombre uses tools and employs various means to detect unoriginal content and its source, among them Ephorus and Turnitin, which always for unsuitable citations and plagiarism to be detected, by comparing the text studied with one of the most extensive databases in the world. These applications were designed by the two main providers of anti-plagiarism software, which make use of a global community of more than 15,000 clients in 140 countries.

“Comunicación y Hombre” also uses text editing tools in order to alter an article’s style in line with the norms of the journal.

Articles in which an Artificial Intelligence tool is involved.

The Journal adopts the WAME Recommendations on Chat GPT and Chatbots in relation to academic publications: https://wame.org/page3.php?id=106 

Chatbots and artificial intelligence cannot play the role of authors, as they lack the ability to understand the role involved in authorship and to assume the responsibility inherent in the creation of an article. In addition, chatbots cannot satisfy the authorship standards set by the ICMJE: 

• “Final approval of the version to be published” and “Agreement to take responsibility for all aspects of the work and to ensure that the accuracy and integrity of any part of the work are properly investigated and resolved.”

A chatbot cannot understand a conflict of interest statement and lacks the legal capacity to sign such a statement. These chatbots do not have an affiliated entity independent of their creators and therefore cannot hold copyright. 

• Consequently, authors submitting a manuscript must ensure that all persons named as authors meet the established authorship criteria. This implies that chatbots should not be included as authors.

Authors should be transparent when artificial intelligence is used, and provide detailed information on how it has been used and the technical characteristics of the chatbot: name, version, model, and source. They should also expose the method of application in the article they are presenting: the structure of the queries and the syntax used.

Authors bear responsibility for the content generated by a chatbot: the truthfulness of the information presented, the accuracy, and the guarantee of the absence of plagiarism. In addition, authors are expected to properly attribute all sources involved in their work. Authors must conclusively state that their article does not contain plagiarized material, which covers both the text generated by the chatbot and any other sources consulted.

Chatbots do not corroborate sources and collect false, inaccurate, or incomplete information. In addition, they may be designed with a predisposition to omit sources that contradict the views expressed in their responses, authors have an obligation to: identify, evaluate, and record such dissenting views in their articles.

On the other hand, publishers need appropriate tools to identify content generated or modified by AI. They must adapt to the innovations and technologies of the 21st century: the proliferation of plagiarized or manipulated texts and images and the emergence of documents generated by automated systems.

Competing interests: All authors declare no competing interests, other than their affiliations as publishers.