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 will 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 beginning. Depending on the seriousness of the ethical breach, legal action may follow.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

The majority of the text in the works should clearly be the result of independent work; concealing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to create/edit the content constitutes unacceptable misconduct and is equally deserving of censure 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 the use of artificial intelligence tools and machine learning tools such as ChatGPT, chatbots and large language models (LLM). We specifically ask authors to attest to the use of AI at initial submission and revision and describe its use 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 that it is the sole responsibility of the authors of the submitted works to ensure the soundness, veracity and legal compliance of the content.