Plagiarism is defined as unattributed use of large portions of
text and/or data or any previously published work without consent, credit, or
acknowledgment and fraudulently passing it as one’s own work. It may also
include text(s), illustrations, musical quotations, extended mathematical
derivations, computer codes, material downloaded from websites or drawn from
manuscripts; published and unpublished material, including lectures,
presentations etc. An author is alleged of plagiarism if there are act of minor
copying of short phrases in discussions; or literal (word–for-word) copying of
large parts from a published paper; or reproducing major parts of a previously
published paper such as text, tables, and figures; or paraphrasing large texts
without verbatim copying the text; or recycling author’s own previously published
text, termed as self-plagiarism, without citation of the prior work. COPE
provides clear guidelines on processes to be followed to check plagiarism when
detected before and after publication. Please click here for further information.
Besides, there are instructions on how to check all submissions
through appropriate plagiarism checking tools. We use plagiarism-checking
software, CrossCheck, powered by iThenticate, for all manuscripts submitted for
publication. This assists editors in identifying plagiarism in all
submissions. Submissions containing suspected plagiarism, in whole
or part, are rejected. If plagiarism is discovered post-publication, we can
retract the article. We expect our readers, reviewers and editors to raise any
suspicions of plagiarism, either by contacting the relevant editor or by
emailing publicationethics@aessweb.com.