PUBLICATION ETHICS
Introduction
Introduction Plagiarism
Authorship
Plagiarism
Duplicate submission
Fabrication and falsification of data
Citations manipulation
Compliance with publication ethics ensures the integrity of scientific publishing and confidence in published articles. Therefore, Academia Scholarly Journals expects all authors to adhere to ethical requirements in the preparation of their manuscript.
The Merriam
Webster Online dictionary defines plagiarizing as: Academia Scholarly Journals (ASJ) considers plagiarism a serious offence. Academia Scholarly Journals is committed to eliminating manuscripts with possible cases of plagiarism from its review and publication process. Academia Scholarly Journals uses the iThenticate plagiarism detection application to check each manuscript for possible cases of plagiarism.
(i) to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
(ii) use (another's production) without crediting the source to commit literary theft
(iii) present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
Plagiarism check is the first step in the manuscript review process. Manuscripts that are found to contain unacceptable level of similarity with other published works are immediately rejected. Please see review process below.
Submitted manuscripts should be the original works of the author(s). Academia Scholarly Journals will follow COPE guideline in suspected cases of plagiarism.
Duplicate submissions
Duplicate submission is a situation whereby an author submits the same or similar manuscripts to two different journals at the same time either within Academia Scholarly Journals or any other publisher. This includes the submission of manuscripts derived from the same data in such a manner that there are no substantial differences in the manuscripts. Duplicate submission also includes the submission of the same/similar manuscript in different languages to different journals.
Fabrication and falsification of data
It is unethical to fabricate, manipulate or falsify data in a manuscript. Academia Scholarly Journals is by COPE guidelines in dealing with suspected cases of data fabrication and falsification.
Citations manipulation
A manuscript should contain
only relevant citations. Inclusion of citations that are
not relevant to the work is strongly discouraged.
Similarly, irrelevant self-citation to increase one’s
citation is unethical.