1. ELVIS MAXIMO ALVAREZ TORRES
2. LUIS MIGUEL ROMERO ECHEVARRIA
3. LEONEL ANTONIO MELO CAIRO
Honesty is the value of telling the truth, faithful to their own moral principles and ideals without any interference in their actions or decisions. This applied, exploratory and bibliographical research makes us aware of the changes that have occurred in scientific production as a result of the generalization of new technologies which, together with the Internet, have led to the exponential production of scientific knowledge; parallel implementation of content similarity verification systems such as: Turnitin, Urkund, Grammarly, Plagiarism Checker, among others; the same ones that in their internal procedure compare the investigation with the information stored on their servers, not knowing the volume of information analyzed, the type and degree of updating over time, given that at this time information is created every second in the world . It is superficial and irresponsible to qualify as "plagiarism" in the reports issued by the "similarity verification programs" in terms of date, these programs only compare the research information with the data found on their servers without the ability to determine the reason why said data has been inserted in the document, as is the case of: Covers, Bibliographic References, Background and Textual Citations, even more so when the system does not have a verification system for indirect citations or paraphrases in the theoretical framework leading the research unit to return an investigation forcing the researcher to reach 20% similarity destroying the value of previous historical information that is validly accepted in the APA style manual leading universities to penalize and sanction processes based on the "similarity index" and in some cases, due to subordinate interests, the to scientific research for political interests, so this research seeks a new starting point for similarity tests so that the supervision units assume their true initial role of becoming responsible for the verification, control and consequent approval of the work. Of investigation based on the supervision by consultancy that to date has been questioned by the media who are unaware of the investigation methodology.
Academic dishonesty, plagiarism, academic integrity, similarity indices, copyright.