Publication Ethics
Compliance with publication ethics ensures the integrity of
scientific publishing and confidence in published articles.
Therefore, Academia Journals expects all authors to adhere to
ethical requirements in the preparation of their manuscript.
The Merriam Webster
Online dictionary defines plagiarizing as:
- to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
- use (another's production) without crediting the source
- to commit literary theft
- present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
Academia Journals considers plagiarism a serious offense. Academia
Journals is committed to eliminating manuscripts with possible cases
of plagiarism from its review and publication process. Academia
Journals uses the iThenticate plagiarism detection application to
check each manuscript for possible cases of plagiarism.
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 Journals will follow COPE guideline in suspected cases of plagiarism.
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 Journals will follow COPE guideline in suspected cases of plagiarism.
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 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.
It is unethical to fabricate, manipulate or falsify data in a
manuscript. Academia Journals is by COPE guidelines in dealing
with suspected cases of data fabrication and falsification.
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.