Fordítástudomány is fully committed to upholding, promoting and disseminating the highest ethical principles. In line with the Core Practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines and the Council of Science Editors' Recommendations for Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications, authors, editors, reviewers and others involved in the journal's publication processes are required to strictly adhere to the principles set out in these documents and are encouraged to follow the COPE recommendations in all related activities.

Breaches of ethical principles

The submitted articles are screened for plagiarism. If it is alleged that a breach of any of the above principles has occurred, the incident should be accurately documented, investigated and the responsible parties should be notified immediately, giving the party allegedly at fault a fair opportunity to make their views known.

In minor cases, the proven error should be corrected, and the party at fault should be warned to refrain from unethical conduct. In serious cases, the publication of the manuscript concerned should be reexamined from the first step. Depending on the seriousness of the ethical breach, legal action may follow.

Use of AI

The substantial part of the text of works is clearly the result of independent work; concealing that the author used artificial intelligence (AI) to create/edit the content constitutes unacceptable misconduct, condemnable in the same way as plagiarism.

In some cases (e.g. title and idea generation, literature search and summarisation, abbreviation of texts/source material, translation, structuring of written material, linguistic/stylistic checking and correction, graphics and slides), AI can be of assistance to authors. In these cases, authors should disclose usage of artificial intelligence tools and machine learning tools such as ChatGPT, Chatbots, Large Language Models (LLM). We specifically ask authors to attest at initial submission and revision to the usage of AI and describe its use in upon submission.

Since some AI-based systems use other publications by human authors without acknowledging the source, there is a possibility that AI-generated text could be classified as plagiarism. In this context, we reiterate the sole responsibility of the authors of the submitted works for the soundness, veracity and legal compliance of the content.