Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarism and Ethical Guidelines
Definition of Plagiarism
Plagiarism is defined as the appropriation of another person’s work, ideas, or results without proper citation, or presenting someone else’s work as your own original contribution.
Instances of Plagiarism include:
- Submitting or publishing the work of others under your own name.
- Copying words or ideas from another source without providing proper attribution.
- Providing incorrect or misleading information regarding the source.
- Paraphrasing content while retaining the original sentence structure without citing the source.
- Extensive copying of words or ideas from a source that constitutes the bulk of your work, regardless of whether a citation is provided.
- Images and Figures: Using images, figures, or diagrams without obtaining the necessary permissions and providing appropriate attribution constitutes plagiarism. Authors are required to secure written permission from the copyright holder for the use of any such materials, where applicable.
Similarity Check by iThenticate & Samim Noor system
The policy of the Urban Ecological Research journal is "fighting academic plagiarism". For this purpose, matching is done through the iThenticate and Samim Noor system.
Policy and Action for Plagiarism
The Journals perform similarity check on each manuscript before the peer-review process and the following steps are taken based on the similarity content:
- If the manuscript is found to have less similarity, it will be returned to the author for revision. The author can resubmit the manuscript after removing all similarity and reworking on the content. After revision, more scrutiny will be done on the resubmitted manuscript to avoid any possible plagiarism and copying of any published data.
- If the similarity content is very high, the manuscript will be rejected and cannot consider for revision and publication.
In cases if plagiarism is detected at a later stage, all the actions pertaining to the offense of plagiarism will be taken. The COPE guideline and flowchart on Plagiarism in a submitted manuscript will be considered for action. If the extent of plagiarism detected after publication, the guideline and flowchart on Plagiarism in a published article will be followed and observed.
Recommendation for Authors
- Always cite sources correctly and acknowledge the intellectual contributions of others.
- All references must contain complete bibliographic information.
- Ensure that all citations within the text are included in the bibliography, and vice versa.
- Any use of more than six consecutive words from an original source must be placed in quotation marks, accompanied by a proper citation.
- Authors must obtain written permission from the original authors or publishers before reusing any copyrighted material.
