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Code of Ethics to Check Malpractices and Plagiarism to Promote Quality Research

Aim:

To promote research and research publications and prevention of misconduct including plagiarism in research.

Introduction:

Ethics and plagiarism are the significant components in research and publication. Sometimes, it is observed that researchers claim others work as their own, which may degrade the reputation of the individual/institution. Therefore, there is a need to assess, monitor and evaluate the academic/research work of the student/researcher scholar/researcher and the research work in the form of papers/projects should go through the process of plagiarism and has to maintain high academic and production standards.

In this direction, the institute ensures that the research work is at par with the National/International standards professional type setters which are engaged to bring about the best of results. The Authors are made responsible for their research work through an undertaking. The institution deplores and dejects the violation of code of ethics which is dishonest and immoral infringing the copyrights act of intellectual property rights

Plagiarism:

Plagiarism constitutes unethical scientific behaviour in research endevours. Proper acknowledgement of the work of others used in a research work must always be given. Further, it is the obligation of each author to provide prompt retractions or corrections of errors in published works. There are varying degrees of plagiarism warranting different consequences and corrective action, listed below from most to least serious:

• Verbatim or nearly verbatim copying or translation of a full paper(s), or the verbatim or nearly verbatim copying or translation of a significant portion(s) of another paper(s).
• Disclosing unpublished data or findings without permission, even if attributed.
• Unaccredited verbatim or nearly verbatim copying or translation of individual elements of another paper(s).
•  Unaccredited paraphrasing of pages or paragraphs from another paper(s).
• Credited verbatim copying or translation of a major portion of a paper without clear delineation (e.g., quotes or indents)

Possible types of Ethical violations:

• Conflict of Interest: Any action that may result in a conflict of interest must be fully disclosed. When objectivity and effectiveness cannot be maintained, the activity should be avoided or discontinued.
• Disputes about authorship Proper authorship representation is generally a matter for the involved parties to resolve.
• Duplicate Submission: Duplicate submission abuses the resources of all affected journals, including the valuable time of editors, reviewers, and staff, and is unprofessional and unacceptable.
• Fabrication or misrepresentation of data or results: Any incidence of fabrication or misrepresentation to be an extremely serious breach of professional conduct, with potentially severe ethical and legal consequences.