In accordance with the guidelines of the University of Costa Rica, Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos considers a very serious offense “to plagiarize, all or part of, intellectual work of any kind.” Consequently, the journal has an anti-plagiarism policy to guarantee that every publication is unique and that it complies with all the intellectual principles in the Costa Rican legislation.

There are many apps that allow the identification of texts with this poor practice. As of Anuario, the Editorial Team uses two systems:

Turnitin: it compares the content introduced in the platform with a database that includes the Internet, student papers, and indexed scientific articles. Go to https://www.turnitin.com/es for more information.

Google Docs: this tool is used in some cases to analyze documents and to verify if the content matches any of the millions of pages and books on the Internet.

Also, if any of the reviewers considers that a document has any kind of plagiarism, they can point it out to the Director of the magazine. This person will expose the case to the Editorial Board to further analyze the case.

The process will be carried out before sending the document for evaluation during the reception process by the editor. Should plagiarism be sadly identified, the case will be analyzed by the Editorial Board. In such case, the article will be rejected, and its author will be notified with the reasons.

The Journal's Ethics and Good Practices can be consulted for the kinds of plagiarism.