The word “Plagiarism” means using someone’s work without their concern/permission or not crediting the used source.In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else’s work and lying about it afterward.
- Plagiarism check is the primary step done after receiving the article.
- Using the plagiarism is checked before starting the review process/.
- If any plagiarism content is detected by the editorial board member, reviewer, editor etc., during the article review process then we will inform and ask them to rewrite the content or to cite the references from where the content has been taken.
- The article must be 70% unique content. In case of more than 30% plagiarism the article may be rejected.
- Plagiarism misrepresents ideas, words, and other creative expression as one’s own. Plagiarism represents the violation of copyright law.
- Plagiarism appears in various forms:
- Copying the exact content, figures, tables, equations from the other source.
- Purposely using portions of another author’s paper.
- Copying or purposely using sentences without citing the source.
- Using exact text downloaded from the internet.
- Copying or downloading figures, photographs, pictures, or diagrams without acknowledging your sources.
- In case the author wants to use material from any other work then it is compulsory to cite the same in references.
- If the required content is in other language, the author needs to change it completely into his/ her own language.