Anti-Plagiarism Policy

International Journal of Surgery and Clinical Research (IJSCR) provide Ethical standards for publication exist to ensure reliable & high-quality scientific research publications, public trust in scientific findings, and that researchers receive credit for their work & ideas.

IJSCR follows strict Code of Conduct and aims to adhere to its Best Practice Guidelines.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism means the practice of taking someone else’s work or idea and passing them as one’s own.

All manuscripts published by IJSCR are committed to publishing only original material, i.e., material that has neither been published elsewhere, nor is under review elsewhere. Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will incur plagiarism penalty.

Plagiarism can take several forms, including but not limited to:

1. Using the exact words of another writer in part of a manuscript without both citation and quotation marks (or block indentation in the case of longer quotations)

2. Cutting and pasting material from Internet or other electronic resources without proper citation of sources

3. Including the paraphrased or summarized idea of another writer without acknowledging its source

4. Submitting for credit a complete paper or portion of a paper written by another person, no matter whether the paper was purchased, shared freely, stolen, found or acquired by other means

Similarity checks for exclusion from Plagiarism:

The similarity checks for plagiarism shall exclude the following –

1. All quoted work reproduced with all necessary permission and/or attribution.

2. All references, bibliography, table of content, preface and acknowledgements.

3. All generic terms,, standard symbols and standards equations

Duplicate Submission

Manuscripts that are found to have been published elsewhere, or to be under review elsewhere, will incur duplicate submission sanctions. If authors have used their own previously published work, or work that is currently under review, as the basis for a submitted manuscript, they are required to cite the previous work and indicate how their submitted manuscript offers novel contributions beyond those of the previous work.

All the manuscripts submitted to the journal are expected to be the result of own thought‚ research‚ or self–expression and will be subjected to Plagiarism check. In case Plagiarism is found and claimed, the work shall be immediately withdrawn/Rejected and strict action shall be initiated against defaulters.

Keeping in view the policy of plagiarism, and avoid piracy of intellectual property, the author needs to follow the citation policy: 

Citation Policy

Submitted manuscripts that are found to include citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number of citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal, will incur citation manipulation penalty.

The authors' responsibility to make sure that all relevant information pick from outside sources, including their own published research work is properly attributed and, if needed, permission is approved. It is imperative that authors abstain from much self-citation and do not replicate references from unread works. Authors should not mention advertising or advertorial content, nor should they display partiality when referring to their own, their friends', peers', or their institution's publications.

As per the rules by COPE, "original wording directly quoted from other researchers' publications should be enclosed in quotation marks and appropriately cited." Authors' own works are likewise subject to this technique. A discussion document on citation manipulation by COPE has been released, which includes best practices guidelines.