Regarding plagiarism, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, in the document on Plagiarism and Ethics, states that this action is committed "when someone, other than its author, discloses, publishes or reproduces a work or part of it and presents it as his own [...] constitutes a fraudulent action that threatens the intellectual author of a given work and against the institution or company that owns the corresponding intellectual property, who are denied the acquired patrimonial and/or moral right" (UNAM 2018).

In this way, with the aim of ensuring academic integrity and preventing plagiarism, the journal Bioética UNAM, in accordance with best editorial practices, will submit the manuscripts submitted for publication to an evaluation process with the similarity search tool iThenticate. The method for the analysis will be quantitative, but with a high qualitative emphasis. The ranges considered as a percentage of similarity with other texts are:

• 1 % to 15 %: minor coincidences and turns to opinion.
• 15 % to 25 %: Qualitative verification is carried out and, if necessary, returned to the author for changes.
• 25 % to 30 %: An in-depth internal analysis is carried out by the editorial team.
• Greater than 31 %: the manuscript is rejected.

If a complaint of plagiarism is received after the publication of an article and this is verified by the Editorial Board of the Journal, the manuscript will be removed from the website of the published issue and from all repositories and databases in which the text appears.