Plagiarism
The Reserachers considers plagiarism (including self-plagiarism) as a serious violation of academic ethics and a practice of dishonesty; it is cheating, fraud and illegal. Plagiarism is a punishable offence and is governed by Section 57, 63 and 63(a) of Copyright Act, 1957. Copyright issue is seriously taken up. The following measures are taken to check plagiarism:
- Plagiarism is checked using plagiarism checker.
- Author(s) must submit declaration to the effect.
- Input from copy-editors and reviewers are taken into consideration.
- Insufficient or no acknowledgement to sources of information, words, tables, illustrations, quotes, thoughts and ideas is seriously viewed. For any evident lapse, clarification is sought from the corresponding author.
- Reference style (citation and bibliographic information) is seriously examined by the copy editors. The corresponding author is contacted to clarify any doubt.
- Methodology is properly examined. Often methodology also hints at originality of a work.