Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism Policy

      If plagiarism is detected by the editorial board member the Academic Science Journal (ASJ), reviewer, editor etc., in any stage of article process- before or after acceptance, during editing. It will alert to the author(s) and will ask them to rewrite the content or to cite the references from where the content has been taken. All the submitted manuscripts for publication are checked for plagiarism after submission and before starting review.

  • <20% Plagiarism: The manuscript will be given an ID and the manuscript is sent to author for content revision.
  • >20- 30% Plagiarism: The manuscript will not be given an ID and the manuscript is sent back to the author for content revision.
  • >50% Plagiarism: The manuscript will be rejected without the review. The authors are advised to revise the manuscript and resubmit the manuscript.

What if Plagiarism detected after Publication?

     The Editorial Board of (ASJ) will conduct an investigation and contact the author’s institute. And the paper will be marked on each page. Depending on the extent of the plagiarism, the paper may also be formally retracted.

  • Plagiarism appears in various forms:
  • Copying the same content from the other source. Purposely using portions of another author’s paper or content.
  • 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 exact text downloaded from the internet.
  • Copying or downloading figures, photographs, pictures or diagrams without acknowledging your sources.

 Acknowledging Author(s) Sources

        Self-plagiarism is a related issue. Note that self-plagiarism does not apply to publications based on the author’s own previously copyrighted work (e.g., appearing in a conference proceedings) where an explicit reference is made to the prior publication. Such reuse does not require quotation marks to delineate the reused text but does require that the source must be cited.

Accidental or Unintentional

        One may not even know that they are plagiarizing. It is the author(s) whose responsibility is to make certain that they understand the difference between quoting and paraphrasing, as well as the proper way to cite material.

Report Plagiarism

        Editorial board, reviewer team has taken due care to assess the plagiarism but in case plagiarism is found with published manuscripts/papers of ASJ, it is the sole duty of the original contributor to report the plagiarized content to us. Such reported cases will be re-evaluated and notified to the Author(s) for making revision. We will remove the paper from web sources until author resubmit revised paper. To report plagiarism, contact to