Plagiarism Policy

Definition

Plagiarism means using someone else’s work without giving them proper credit. In academic writing, plagiarizing involves using words, ideas, or information from a source without citing it correctly. In practice, this can mean a few different things.

Types of Plagiarism

  • Global plagiarism is the practice of passing off someone else's entire text as your own.
  • Verbatim plagiarism refers to directly duplicating someone else's words.
  • Paraphrasing plagiarism involves rephrasing someone else's ideas and presenting them as your own.
  • Patchwork plagiarism is the practice of combining elements from other sources to produce your own content.
  • Self-plagiarism refers to recycling your own previous work.

Examples of Plagiarism

  • Copying parts of a text word for word, without quotation marks
  • Paraphrasing a text by changing a few words or altering the sentence structure without citing the source
  • Giving incorrect information about a source
  • Quoting so much from a source that it makes up the majority of your text
  • Reusing work, you’ve submitted for a previous assignment without citing yourself
  • Submitting a text written entirely by someone else (e.g., a paper you bought from a ghost-writer)

Authors must maintain high integrity and honesty while adhering to research ethics norms and laws. Any form of research misconduct erodes the credibility of research findings and can lead to serious consequences such as deprecation, funding failure, and legal action. The authors must acknowledge misbehaviour, avoid actions that could lead to misappropriation, and encourage ethical research procedures.

The submitted article content must be original. ARAI Journal of Mobility Technology (AJMT) uses similarity recognition software, such as iThenticate, to ensure the quality of the article's content. If an article contains plagiarized content, the editor will immediately reject it during the initial peer-review phase. It guarantees that the journal will not jeopardize the quality of the published paper in any manner.

Similarity Index

  1. 15% or below: We will consider it and send the paper to the editorial board for peer review. A paper will go through peer review twice.
  2. 16% to 30%: We will send the paper to the author to revise and re-submit and will check for plagiarism once again.
  3. 31% and above: We will not consider the paper for publication. 
  1. All the submitted articles will be checked for plagiarism and originality. The maximum plagiarism allowed is 15 per cent.
  2. The ARAI Journal of Mobility Technology has a rigorous anti-plagiarism policy, and all submitted papers are checked for plagiarism using licenced software from Similarity Check-Crossref.
  3. Manuscripts should not have been published previously or be in the process of being submitted elsewhere. Duplicate publication is a violation of the APA code of ethics, and the paper will be rejected immediately. If the editor was unaware of the breach and the piece was published, the article will be withdrawn and a notice of the duplicate submission and the ethical violation will be issued.
  4. Authors shall submit only entirely original works, and will appropriately cite or quote the work and/or words of others.
  5. Whenever copyrighted material is used, contributors/authors should accurately reproduce and obtain written permission from the copyright holders (publishers), and the same should be acknowledged in the article.
  6. Upon submission, the paper is subjected to a brief screening for content that is relevant to the journal's scope. The work is next reviewed for plagiarism and approved by an editorial board member before being sent out for peer review.
  7. Plagiarism is discouraged at all stages and may result in the withdrawal of the manuscript or article. Plagiarism is defined as the unauthorised use of text, data, figures, or pictures, as well as the paraphrasing of language, thoughts, and ideas.
  8. Publications that have been significant in determining the nature of the reported work should also be cited. Plagiarism includes “passing off” another’s paper as the author’s own, copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another’s paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others.
  9. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is intolerable.
  10. A plagiarised article is rejected at the sole discretion of our editors (based on the percentage of plagiarism explored) and/or the author is given time to resubmit the revised, non-plagiarized work, which will be considered a fresh submission. This reduces the burden on our peer reviewers, allowing them to concentrate their time and effort on accessing the manuscript's content, resulting in an efficient peer review.
  11. Proper citation should be given in the manuscript for Images/Figures and Tables reproduced from any other sources.

The journal will remove the PDF of the article from its website, disable all hyperlinks to it, and add the term "plagiarised" to its title. Furthermore, the authors will be embargoed from the journal for five years, preventing them from submitting any articles during that time. The journal will request that editors avoid writers on the embargo list.

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