Any form of plagiarism, including auto-plagiarism, constitutes unethical practice and is, therefore, unacceptable. Simultaneous submission of the same manuscript to more than one journal is considered to be unethical behavior.

All the manuscripts submitted to the journal “Ores and Metals” are checked for incorrect borrowings and plagiarism, using either the Antiplagiat system (papers written in Russian), or Google Scholar (papers written in English).

Plagiarism and incorrect borrowings may take diverse forms such as:

• use of any information from other publications without indicating the primary source;
• use of images, pictures, photographs, tables, diagrams, schemes or any other forms of graphical information without indicating the primary source;
• use of any materials from scientific and popular publications without written agreement of the copyright holder, if their authors do not allow to use these materials without such the approval;
• incorrect citation, including incomplete bibliographic description of the source, which hinders its identification;
• reference to a secondary source of borrowed information without clear indication of this fact, which may result in mistakes with determination of the primary source;
• absence of in-text references to the sources listed in the bibliography list of the paper;
• excessive citation not justified by the objectives and genre of the paper.

Where any form of plagiarism has been detected, the Editorial Board shall not only reject paper publication, but may retract the already published paper.

Retraction policy

In case where the Editorial Board

• receives evidence of the fraudulence of the published information as a result of either the authors’ conscious actions or bona fide errors (e.g., unintentional errors in calculations);
• receives evidence of duplicate  publication;
• reveals concealment of a conflict of interest, which could have affected the data interpretation or recommendations on the use of the results obtained,

a retraction mechanism shall be applied in compliance with the COPE protocol.

Retraction is aimed to correct errors in publications and inform the readers about those papers comprising erroneous data.

Retraction does not imply deletion of the publication from the Journal website or other bibliographic databases. The original paper is retained unchanged with a clear notion of the retraction, with its DOI or another permanent link defining its location. This is considered important since the paper may have already been cited by third parties. Information about retracted papers is presented on the Journal website.