plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism policy 

 

All manuscripts under review or published with ARLJ are subject to screening using plagiarism-prevention software called ithenticate. Plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics. Other violations include duplicate publication, data fabrication and falsification, and improper credit of author contribution.  Thus, plagiarism, fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements, and submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. It is necessary to mention that the ARLJ may ignore a duplicated manuscript up to 20%.

The development of Crosscheck is a service that helps editors to verify the originality of papers. Crosscheck is powered by the Ithenticate software from iParadigms, known in the academic community.  For a searchable list of all journals in the Cross-Check database, please visit: www.ithenticate.com/search

 All new submissions to the ARLJ are automatically screened using Crosscheck within the editorial system. Editorial Board Members may also choose to run a similarity report at any point during the review process or after publication. The default similarity report view gives the percentage of the text of the manuscript that overlaps with one or more published articles. Note that a high similarity score does not necessarily indicate plagiarized text. A similarity score of 30% could mean 30% text in common with one source, but could equally mean 1% text in common with 30 different sources. Re-used text that has been legitimately cited in the Bibliography may all contribute to the similarity score. The subject knowledge of an editorial expert is vital to interpret the Crosscheck report and determine whether there are any grounds for concern.