Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism in simple word is copying another person's ideas, words or writing and pretending that they are one's own work.

Plagiarism misrepresents ideas, words, and other creative expression as one's own. Plagiarism represents the violation of copyright law. Plagiarism appears in various forms.

• Copying the exact content from the other source. Purposely using portions of another author's paper.
• Copying elements of another author's paper, such as figures, tables, equations or illustrations that are not common knowledge, or copying or purposely using sentences without citing the source.
• Using text downloaded from the internet
• Copying or downloading figures, photographs, pictures or diagrams without acknowledging your sources

PLAGIARISM BEFORE PUBLISHING:

IBMRD’S publishers will judge any case of plagiarism on its limits. If plagiarism is detected by the editorial board member, reviewer, editor etc., in any stage of article process- before or after acceptance, during editing or at a page proof stage. We will alert the same to the author(s) and will ask them to rewrite the content or the to cite the references from where the content has been taken. If more than 25% of the paper is plagiarized- the article may be rejected and the same is notified to the author.

WHEN DOES THE PLAGIARISM CHECK DONE?

All the submitted manuscripts for publication are checked for plagiarism after submission and before starting review.

HOW IS PLAGIARISM HANDLED?

The manuscripts in which the plagiarism is detected are handled based on the extent of the plagiarism.

< 10% Plagiarism: The manuscript is accepted and it is sent to author for content revision.

10 - 25% Plagiarism: Manuscript is sent back to author for content revision.

> 30% Plagiarism: The manuscript will be rejected without the review. The authors are advised to revise the manuscript and resubmit the updated manuscript.

WHY MANUSCRIPTS WITH >30% PLAGIARISM IS REJECTED:

If the plagiarism is detected more than 30%, it is found that the authors are very unlikely to revise the manuscript and submit the revised version. However, authors are welcome to do the required revisions and submit the manuscript as a new submission.

ORIGINALITY

By submitting Author(s) manuscript to the journal it is understood that it is an original manuscript and is unpublished work and is not under consideration elsewhere. Plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the author's own work, in whole or in part without proper citation is not tolerated by the journal.

ACKNOWLEDGING AUTHOR(S) SOURCES

Original research papers are accepted for publications which are not published elsewhere. The authors are therefore required to submit the copyright form as` undertaking stating the same. There is only 10% acceptance of plagiarism for all research articles/papers/manuscripts etc. The publication right is shared with all authors.