Publication Ethics

Introduction
Compliance with publication ethics ensures the integrity of scientific publishing and confidence in published articles. Therefore, Annali di Stomatologia expects all authors to adhere to ethical requirements in the preparation of their manuscript.

Plagiarism
Annali di Stomatologia considers plagiarism a serious offense and is committed to eliminating manuscripts with possible cases of plagiarism from its review and publication process. Annali di Stomatologia uses the iThenticate plagiarism detection application to check each manuscript for possible cases of plagiarism.
Plagiarism check is the first step in the manuscript review process. Manuscripts that are found to contain unacceptable level of similarity with other published works are immediately rejected. Submitted manuscripts should be the original works of the author(s). Annali di Stomatologia will follow COPE guideline in suspected cases of plagiarism.

Duplicate submissions
Duplicate submission is a situation whereby an author submits the same or similar manuscripts to two different journals at the same time either within Annali di Stomatologia or any other publisher. This includes the submission of manuscripts derived from the same data in such a manner that there are no substantial differences in the manuscripts. Duplicate submission also includes the submission of the same/similar manuscript in different languages to different journals.

Fabrication and falsification of data
It is unethical to fabricate, manipulate or falsify data in a manuscript.  Annali di Stomatologia is by COPE guidelines in dealing with suspected cases of data fabrication and falsification.

Citations manipulation
A manuscript should contain only relevant citations. Inclusion of citations that are not relevant to the work is strongly discouraged. Similarly, irrelevant self-citation to increase one’s citation is unethical.