Plagiarism Screening Policy

Review of Applied Health Research is published by the International Research Alliance for Sustainable Development - iRASD. iRASD has a membership of iThenticate, an online tool to help the editors verify the originality of submitted manuscripts. All submitted manuscripts are scanned with Turnitin to calculate the similarity index or plagiarism.

What is PLAGIARISM?

Plagiarism is when an author attempts to pass off someone else work as his or her own. Duplicate publication, sometimes called self-plagiarism, occurs when an author reuses substantial parts of his or her published work without providing the appropriate references. This can range from getting an identical paper published in multiple journals to salami-slicing, where authors add small amounts of new data to a previous paper.

PLAGIARISM Policy of iRASD Journal of Energy & Environment (JEE)

  1. Review of Applied Health Research - RAHR is committed to promoting and disseminating the original research work relating to the field of economic sciences.
  2. Plagiarism comes in several forms for that reason, and It cannot be tolerated by the Review of Applied Health Research - RAHR at any stage as it shows unethical publishing behaviour.
  3. All selected manuscripts will be screened for plagiarism by using iThenticate software.
  4. The manuscript in which the plagiarism is detected is handled based on the extent of the plagiarism. A manuscript with less than a 19% similarity index can be accepted for publication.
  5. If the manuscript has plagiarism < 15%, the manuscript will be given an ID, and the manuscript will be sent to the review process.
  6. If the manuscript has plagiarism of 15-30%, the manuscript will be given an ID, and the manuscript will be sent back to the author for content revision.
  7. If plagiarism is detected by 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.

In the case of suspected plagiarism in a published article:

  1. A specific process is followed to manage a case of plagiarism. The Review of Applied Health Research - RAHR follows the guidelines in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) flowcharts (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts).
  2. The person who advised us of the situation is informed about the process to be followed.
  3. The articles are compared to check the degree of copying.
  4. All Editor(s) of the Review of Applied Health Research - RAHR are informed and asked for their comments.
  5. The corresponding author of the article in question is contacted with documentary evidence of the case of plagiarism and is asked for a response.
  6. If the authors are found guilty of plagiarism
    1. The editor of the journal where the original plagiarized article was published and the authors of the plagiarized article are informed.
    2. The Review of Applied Health Research - RAHR published an official retraction of the paper.
    3. The online version of the Review of Applied Health Research - RAHR article is withdrawn from the OJS host site and
    4. The Review of Applied Health Research - RAHR will not publish any article by any of the authors concerned for a period of 5 years.