Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism detection: All Received Manuscripts are initially screened with Turnitin. A definite process is followed to handle a case of plagiarism. IJPDA follows the guidelines included in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) flowcharts https://publicationethics.org/files/plagiarism%20A.pdf

Authors can adhere to the following steps to report plagiarism: 

1. Report to the journal editor where a plagiarized article is published.
2. Send original and plagiarized articles with plagiarized parts to be underlined.
3. If evidence of plagiarism is convincing, the editor should arrange for a disciplinary meeting.
4. If the authors are found guilty of plagiarism
5. The plagiarist should be asked to explain.
6. In case of nonresponse in the stipulated time or an unsatisfactory explanation, the article should be permanently retracted.
7. The author should be blocklisted and debarred for submitting an article to a particular journal for at least six months.
8. The concerned head of the organization has to be notified.

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