Plagiarism is a practice where the authors try to publish someone else’s work as their own. Self-plagiarism is also practised when an author tries to re-publish his previously published articles/data in some other journal. IRJMS journal accesses the submitted manuscript for any plagiarism and takes immediate action against it. If more than 30% of the article is plagiarized, it is rejected straight away. If less than 30% is plagiarized, the authors are asked to revise the article giving the appropriate references wherever required.
Plagiarism Check
To check submitted and published content for originality, IRJMS utilise Turnitin to identify instances of text duplication and similarity.
Plagiarism occurs when someone purposefully uses another person’s words or ideas without giving due credit.
Originality
Plagiarism is the false representation of thoughts, words, and other forms of original expression. The infringement of copyright laws is plagiarism. Plagiarism can take many different forms.
- Copying the exact content from another source. Purposely using portions of another author’s paper.
- Copying elements of another author’s paper, such as figures, tables, equations or illustrations that are not common knowledge, or copying or purposely using sentences without citing the source.
- Using text downloaded from the internet
- Copying or downloading figures, photographs, pictures or diagrams without acknowledging your sources
References Including Author Credit
A related problem is self-plagiarism. In this text, we define self-plagiarism as the reuse of a substantial amount of one’s copyrighted work precisely or almost verbatim without referencing the original author. It should be noted that publications based on the author’s own previously copyrighted work (such as those that appear in conference proceedings) where an explicit reference is made to the earlier publication are not considered to be self-plagiarized. Although the source must be credited, such reuse does not necessitate the use of quote marks to distinguish the reused material.
Accidental/Unintentional
One can even be unaware that they are copying. It is the author’s duty to ensure that they are aware of the distinction between quoting and paraphrasing as well as the correct citation style.
Deliberate
The author(s) in this instance are well aware that they are copying. Plagiarism is the deliberate use of another person’s thoughts or work without giving them due credit. This involves submitting research papers that were purchased or borrowed as one’s own.