Anti-plagiarism policy

The COVS Journal has a strict anti-plagiarism policy, using tools such as Turnitin, Plagiarism, etc. This ensures that the articles/manuscripts submitted to its Editorial Board are original and not published elsewhere.

If plagiarism is detected in any submitted articles, the work will be immediately rejected, and the author(s) will be informed of the Editorial Board's decision.

Plagiarism is considered to be the total or partial reproduction of another's work, presenting it as original and one's own. Plagiarism also includes the appropriation of others' ideas, reformulating or summarizing them and presenting them as one's own.

This applies to both texts and images, graphics, data, tables, and/or illustrations reproduced in the work without having copyright rights.

If the work is the author's own but already published elsewhere, it will be considered self-plagiarism and will be rejected as well.

Authors of articles published in the COVS Journal retain copyright and grant copy and distribution rights to the Aragonese Society of Optometry and Contactology (SAOCO), with CIF: G99557373, and registered office at Calle Cadena, 15 – Bajo. CP: 50001, Zaragoza (Spain).