Lex Humana does not accept plagiarism, undisclosed self-plagiarism or improper duplicate submissions. Authors must check the originality of their work and acknowledge sources appropriately before submission.

Similarity tools support editorial checks, but their reports provide indications to examine. A similarity percentage is not a plagiarism percentage, does not establish misconduct by itself and is not an automatic rejection criterion. A high score may include legitimate overlap; a low score does not rule out misappropriation of ideas or content.

Suspected plagiarism is examined by the editor through a contextual human assessment, which informs the editorial decision. Flagged passages and their sources must be examined, considering the extent and significance of overlap, quotations and references, attributed paraphrases, bibliographies, standard expressions and possible reuse of the authors’ previous work. No numerical threshold alone determines rejection.

Substantiated concerns are communicated to the authors, who have an opportunity to explain under the ethics and integrity policy. Decisions depend on human examination of the evidence and must be reasoned and communicated to those concerned. Depending on the nature and seriousness of the case, corrections, rejection or another measure under that policy may be appropriate. A corrected new submission is subject to fresh assessment, without a guarantee of acceptance.

Problems identified after publication follow the procedures for corrections, expressions of concern or retractions, where appropriate; a software percentage never replaces that examination.

Support tools already listed by the journal include Grammarly Plagiarism Checker, CopySpider and Check Plagiarism; other tools may be used. Reports do not replace human verification or authorise disclosure of confidential manuscripts or data.

Author guidelines · Ethics · Peer review · AI use

Revised: 13 October 2026.