Publication Misconduct
Publication misconduct includes plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, inappropriate authorship, duplicate submission/multiple submissions, overlapping publication, and salami publication. The policies are framed in line with PILA and COPE Committee standards for publication misconduct, which are as follows:
1 Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person’s thoughts, ideas, data, figures, research methods, or words without giving appropriate credit, or the over-citation of another person’s published work.
2 Fabrication: Fabrication is the practice of making up data or results without having performed relevant research.
3 Falsification: Falsification is the practice of changing data or results intentionally such that misleading conclusion is drawn.
4 Inappropriate authorship: Authorship is not appropriately assigned based on the author’s contributions.
5 Duplicate submission/multiple submissions: Duplicate submission/multiple submissions refers to the practice of submitting the same manuscript or several manuscripts with minor differences (e.g., differences only in title, keywords, abstract, author order, author affiliations, or a small amount of text) to two or more journals at the same time, or submitting to another journal within an agreed or stipulated period.
6 Overlapping publication: Overlapping publication refers to the practice of publishing a paper overlaps substantially with one already published.
7 Salami publications: Salami publication refers to the practice of slicing data from a large study, could have been reported in a single paper, into different pieces and publishing them in two or more articles, all of which cover the same population, methods, and question.
8 Inappropriate authorship: Authorship is not appropriately assigned based on the author’s contributions.
9 Cross-checking of references in connection with content.
If any misconduct is found, the Journal will
- Reject the manuscript or withdraw the published paper.
- Inform the institution the corresponding author is affiliated with and the funder(s) about such misconduct.
- Release all penalty documents on the journal site.
In addition, to fight against plagiarism and to ensure high ethical standards for all of the published papers, DTCJCI has joined Turnitin Similarity Checker. Turnitin is an effective tool for detecting unoriginal content, enabling our editors to preserve the journal’s integrity and the authors’ copyright. All submitted papers will be subjected to a “similarity test” by Plagiarism this software.