Anti-Plagiarism Policy

International Journal of Racket Sports Science is committed to ensuring the integrity of the research it publishes. To that end, we have implemented an anti-plagiarism policy that includes the following measures:

Submission to Turnitin: All submitted manuscripts will be screened using Turnitin, a plagiarism detection and prevention software. Any manuscript with a high similarity score will be carefully reviewed for possible plagiarism.
Author Responsibility: Authors are responsible for ensuring that their work is original and properly cited. Any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, is strictly prohibited.
Editorial Review: Our editorial team will carefully review all manuscripts to ensure that they meet our standards for originality and quality. Any manuscript found to contain plagiarized material will be rejected without further consideration.
Consequences of Plagiarism: In the event that plagiarism is detected after publication, we reserve the right to retract the article and notify the author's institution, funding agencies, and other relevant parties.

By adhering to this policy, we aim to promote the highest standards of ethical research and maintain the integrity of the scientific literature.

Retractions

For the International Journal of Racket Sports Science, retraction processes are actions that seek to correct and improve published scientific literature. They are not viewed as instruments to sanction authors; on the contrary, they seek to contribute to improving their work in the academic field.

In these cases, retraction of published articles is justified:

Methodological flaws: errors in the methodological design, data analysis that contradicts the conclusions, insufficient sample size, inadequate application of methodology, problems in data presentation.
Fabrication or falsification of data: deliberate manipulation of collected information to show other results, falsifying images, excluding results that contradict the proposed hypotheses.
Plagiarism: using other people's work, information, and ideas without crediting them. This includes literal plagiarism or paraphrasing without proper citation and referencing.
Duplicate publication: when the same research results are published in multiple journals.
Ethical violations: failure to comply with ethical protocols in research, related to informed consent, conflict of interest, or any ethical standard within the framework of research.

Retraction processes will be carried out through a regular channel, providing guarantees to those involved.

Information regarding potential cases that warrant retraction of an already published article should be sent directly to info@journal.racketsportscience.org, including a description of the complaint, a copy of the problematic article, evidence of plagiarism, and other elements considered relevant to support the complaint.