One of the ethical criteria on which the EduSol journal is based is precisely the originality of the scientific articles sent to its Editorial Committee to carry out the editorial process.

In correspondence with the previous idea, the authors must guarantee that the criteria issued, data provided and other results are original and that they have not been invented, copied, manipulated or distorted.

That is why the editorial board of the EduSol Journal during the evaluation process of scientific articles ensures that there are no redundant publications, that possible plagiarism, scientific fraud and other faults considered as serious ethical misconduct are detected.

In this regard, the editorial board of the EduSol journal has the prerogative to disavow those scientific articles that have already been published, or that the application of bad practices such as manipulation, plagiarism of texts, redundant publication, omitting bibliographical references of sources that have been consulted as well as the use of contents of other authors without their prior authorization or reference.

To detect plagiarism, this journal has the Plagiarism detector and other complementary ones that will be used if necessary, such as Small SEO Tools and PlagScan, and if a level of similarity higher than 25% is detected, the origin of the sources marked as plagiarized will be thoroughly reviewed.

The plagiarism check will always be performed before sending the manuscript to the reviewers so that it can be corrected by the authors.

After this plagiarism control process, the editors will send the report to the main author notifying him/her that the manuscript is definitively rejected or, according to the level of coincidence, if he/she is given the possibility to rewrite the manuscript, adequately citing the texts highlighted as plagiarized.

EduSol journal assumes in the plagiarism policy the following errors of behavior:

• Redundant or duplicate publications: This refers to the irresponsible behavior of some authors when they send their manuscript to several scientific journals simultaneously, which often results in the publication of the article in two or more journals. This behavior is sanctioned by the editors who warn, not only the acceptance of articles that are original, but also that if the redundant publication is detected, the author will not be able to send other scientific articles for the purpose of carrying out the editorial process.

With respect to the subject, it is reminded that this journal receives original articles, so they must not be postulated or have been previously published in another format. We also receive papers as a result of participation in scientific congresses and events which must be up to date and must inform the editorial team of our journal of their origin.

• Plagiarism: It is considered as such when the author uses criteria, ideas or data from others assuming them as his own, i.e. without citing the original source from which it was taken. In addition, when a text exceeding 250 words has been reused to prepare a new article, this behavior is considered as self-plagiarism, which, in accordance with the level of seriousness, is penalized by law as it is illegal.

In this sense, it is suggested that the authors keep the draft for a reasonable period of time as a good practice in case they need to corroborate that the article was written by them. The same applies to the data and results obtained in the research carried out.

• Fabrication or falsification of the data provided: This malpractice is considered as such when the authors provide manipulated, altered or fabricated data to meet a certain objective.

To detect this malpractice in the editorial process, the editors of the EduSol journal will corroborate the date on which the article in question was published, and will check the date of acceptance by the editorial board of the journal and notify the authors.

On the other hand, within the file containing the documents that accompany the scientific article, a letter of originality is required, which implies the commitment of the authors that the content is unpublished and that the manuscript has not been sent to another journal for evaluation as part of the preventive work so that they become aware and this behavior does not happen.

• Use of materials without prior authorization of the authors: This aspect takes into account the unauthorized disclosure of e-mails or personal addresses of other people. It also includes the disclosure of interview results for which they must have the informed consent of the persons who participated in the research as well as the authorization of the researcher who originally issued those data.

• Modification of digital images: This behavior is related to changes made to original images, cropping, changing them, and the author must also state whether the image is his/her own or was taken from other sources and reference them appropriately.

• Replacement of other authors: This behavior is related to the exclusion of an author without his or her consent or the making of any modification to the written text without prior consultation with the rest of the authors of the research.