IJET Plagiarism Policy

Ensuring originality and academic integrity in research publications.

What is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is using, without acknowledgement, someone else’s ideas or work. You must both delineate (i.e., separate and identify) the copied text from your text and give credit to (i.e., cite the source) the source of the copied text to avoid accusations of plagiarism. Plagiarism is considered fraud and has potentially harsh consequences, including loss of job, loss of reputation, and the assignation of reduced or failing grade in a course. Institutions that are prepared to prevent or handle plagiarism benefit from higher levels of academic honesty. This section contains best practices and advice for building academic integrity policies to support your education community. If you submit an assignment that contains work that is not your own, without clearly indicating this to the marker (fully acknowledging your sources using the rules of the specified academic referencing style), you are committing “plagiarism” and this is academic misconduct. It is important to understand that if you do not acknowledge fully the sources that have contributed to and informed your work, you are misrepresenting your knowledge and abilities.

IJET Plagiarism Detection

The International Journal of Engineering and Techniques (IJET) is a peer-reviewed, indexed monthly online journal having ISSN: 2935-1303. All manuscripts submitted for publication to IJET are cross-checked for Plagiarism / Similarity Index using Turnitin / Plagiarism CheckerX software.

Examples of IJET policy for plagiarism include copying (using another person’s language and/or ideas as if they are your own), by:

Quoting verbatim another person’s work without due acknowledgement of the source.
Paraphrasing another person’s work by changing some of the words, or the order of the words, without due acknowledgement of the source.
Using ideas taken from someone else without reference to the originator.
Cutting and pasting from the Internet to make a pastiche of online sources.
Submitting someone else’s work as part of your own without identifying clearly who did the work.

Common Types of Plagiarism

Direct Plagiarism: Word-for-word transcription of a section of someone else’s work without attribution and quotation marks.
Accidental Plagiarism: Neglecting to cite sources, misquoting, or unintentionally paraphrasing without proper attribution.
Self-Plagiarism: Submitting one’s own previous work without permission or proper citation.
Mosaic Plagiarism: Borrowing phrases without quotation marks or using synonyms while maintaining the structure and meaning of the original text.

Policy and Actions for Plagiarism

IJET respects intellectual property and aims to protect and promote original work of its authors. Manuscripts containing plagiarized material are against IJET’s standards of quality, research, and innovation. Authors submitting articles are expected to adhere to ethical standards and abstain from plagiarism in any form. In cases where plagiarism is detected:

IJET will contact the author(s) to submit an explanation within two weeks, which may be forwarded to the Fact Finding Committee (FFC) for further action.
If no response is received, IJET will contact the Director / Dean / Head of the concerned institution for strict action.
Published manuscripts containing plagiarism will be removed from IJET’s website, and links to the article will be disabled.
The author’s account will be disabled, and future submissions will be rejected for 3, 5, or 10 years, or permanently.
Details of authors involved in plagiarism may be displayed on IJET’s website.
Further actions will be taken as deemed fit by the Editorial Board or Fact Finding Committee.