Biomedicine and Chemical Sciences (BCS) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of academic integrity and ethical publishing. The journal has a zero-tolerance policy toward plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication, data falsification, and other forms of scientific misconduct.
Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:
Copying text, ideas, images, tables, figures, or data from other sources without proper acknowledgment.
Presenting another person's work as one's own.
Submitting previously published work without appropriate citation.
Self-plagiarism or redundant publication.
Improper paraphrasing of published content.
Unattributed use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated content.
All submitted manuscripts are screened using plagiarism detection software during the editorial evaluation process.
As a general guideline:
Overall similarity index should not exceed 15%.
Similarity from any single source should generally not exceed 3%.
References, standard methodological descriptions, and legally required statements may be excluded from similarity assessments where appropriate.
Meeting these thresholds does not automatically guarantee acceptance, and exceeding them does not automatically result in rejection. Editorial judgment will be applied in all cases.
If plagiarism or unethical overlap is identified, the journal may take one or more of the following actions:
Request manuscript revision.
Reject the manuscript.
Withdraw the manuscript from the review process.
Retract a published article when necessary.
Notify authors’ institutions, funding agencies, or relevant authorities in cases of serious misconduct.
Manuscripts submitted to BCS must be original and must not be simultaneously submitted to, accepted by, or published in another journal. Duplicate publication and redundant publication are considered serious violations of publication ethics.
Authors are responsible for ensuring the originality of their work and for properly citing all sources used in the preparation of their manuscript. Submission of a manuscript to BCS constitutes a declaration that the work is original and complies with accepted standards of research and publication ethics.
BCS follows the principles and recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) in handling allegations of plagiarism and publication misconduct.
The journal reserves the right to investigate suspected cases of plagiarism at any stage of the submission, review, publication, or post-publication process.
