Plagiarism Policy is now updated in Author Instruction as shown below.

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Plagiarism Policy

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 own 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.

All the submitted manuscripts for publication are initially checked for plagiarism after submission and before starting review using a plagiarism detection software such as “iThenticate”, “Turnitin”, etc. If plagiarism is detected by the editorial board member, reviewer, editor etc., in any stage of article process- before or after acceptance, we will alert the same to the author(s) and will ask them to rewrite the content or to cite the references from where the content has been taken. If more than 30% of the paper is plagiarized, the article may be rejected and the same is notified to the author.