Editorial/Editorial

Abstract

The Brazilian research community has tried to reach leadership status in the international scenario; however, this process involves not only an increasing number of high impact publications, but also the promotion of actions to publicize and value the good scientific practices. As part of this effort, regulating organs and those that support Brazilian research have conducted discerning analyses in cases of poor scientific publications, be it in the elaboration of projects, execution of research or propagation of science. Plagiarism and self-plagiarism are forms of poor scientific conduct involving the appropriation of ideas or intellectual contribution from others, without the proper recognition in citations. Since April, we have begun to use a specific software to analyze the risk of plagiarism. We understand that the process of analysis for plagiarism should not be limited to one software; therefore, when a high rate of coincidence is observed in parts of the manuscript, only after a careful manual analysis from the Editors the authors are informed so that they can have the opportunity to change the text. In this context, and as Editors, we understand that it is part of our mission to contribute with the practice of Science that reflects originality, methodological value and scientific writing.To continue with our purpose, in this issue, 27(3), CoDAS included articles from three Brazilian states and seven different institutions. The issue has five articles in the field of Language and three papers in the field of Audiology; there are three texts about Orofacial Motricity and three regarding Voice. Out of these, 12 are original articles, one is a brief communication and one is a review. Oliveira, Santos, Rabelo and Magalhães studied, in the article "The impact of noise exposure on workers in Mobile Support Units", the presence of auditory and nonauditory complaints among professionals who work in ambulances, and concluded that such symptoms are common and related to the profession. Jacob-Corteletti, Duarte, Zucki, Mariotto, Lauris and Alvarenga, in the paper "Acoustic reflex on newborns: the influence of the 226 and 1,000 Hz probes", analyzed the occurrence and the acoustic reflex threshold among newborns, and verified that the use of the 1,000 Hz probe led to higher occurence of acoustic reflex and lower thresholds, both for healthy newborns and for those at risk. In the analysis by Vaz, Pezarini, Paschoal and Chacon, called "Characteristics of the acquisition of sonorant consonants orthography in Brazilian children from a São Paulo municipality", the authors analyzed the spelling errors of sonorant consonants, reinforcing the importance of considering both the distribution of hits and errors and their relationship with phonetic-phonological aspects. Freitas, Mezzomo and Vidor, in the article "Phonemic discrimination and the relationship with other linguistic levels in children with typical phonological development and phonological disorder", observed statistically significant differences regarding phonemic di...