Policies

1.Plagiarism Policy:

Plagiarism is using, without acknowledgement, someone else?s ideas or work. You must both delineate (i.e., separate and identify) the copied text from your text and give credit to (i.e., cite the source) the source of the copied text to avoid accusations of plagiarism. Plagiarism is considered fraud and has potentially harsh consequences including loss of job, loss of reputation, and the assignation of reduced or failing grade in a course. Institutions that are prepared to prevent or handle plagiarism benefit from higher levels of academic honesty. This section contains best practices and advice for building academic integrity policies to support your education community. If you submit an assignment that contains work that is not your own, without clearly indicating this to the marker (fully acknowledging your sources using the rules of the specified academic referencing style), you are committing ? plagiarism? and this is academic misconduct. It is important to understand that if you do not acknowledge fully the sources that have contributed to and informed your work you are misrepresenting your knowledge and abilities.

All manuscripts submitted for publication to IJMRSET are cross-checked for Plagiarism / Similarity Index using Turnitin / PlagScan software.

Common Types of Plagiarism:

Direct plagiarism is the word-for-word transcription of a section of someone else?s work, without attribution and without quotation marks.

Accidental Plagiarism:

Accidental plagiarism occurs when a person neglects to cite their sources, or misquotes their sources, or unintentionally paraphrases a source by using similar words, groups of words, and/or sentence structure without attribution.

Self Plagiarism:

Self-plagiarism occurs when a student submits his or her own previous work, or mixes parts of previous works, without permission from all professors involved.

Mosaic Plagiarism:

Mosaic Plagiarism occurs when a student borrows phrases from a source without using quotation marks, or finds synonyms for the author?s language while keeping to the same general structure and meaning of the original.

Policy and Action for Plagiarism:

IJMRSET respects intellectual property and aims at protecting and promoting original work of its authors. Manuscripts containing plagiarized material are against the standards of quality, research and innovation. Hence, all authors submitting articles to IJMRSET is expected to abide ethical standards and abstain from plagiarism, in any form. In case, an author is found to be suspected of plagiarism in a submitted or published manuscript then, IJMRSET shall contact the author (s) to submit his / her (their) explanation within two weeks, which may be forwarded to the Fact Finding Committee (FFC) constituted for the purpose, for further course of action. If IJMRSET does not receive any response from the author within the stipulated time period, then the Director / Dean / Head of the concerned College, Institution or Organization or the Vice Chancellor of the University to which the author is affiliated shall be contacted to take strict action against the concerned author.

IJMRSET shall take serious action against published manuscripts found to contain plagiarism and shall completely remove them from IJMRSET website and other third party websites where the paper is listed and indexed. The moment, any article published in IJMRSET database is reported to be plagiarized, IJMRSET will constitute a Fact Finding Committee (FFC) to investigate the same. Upon having established that the manuscript is plagiarized from some previously published work, IJMRSET shall support the original author and manuscript irrespective of the publisher and may take any or all of the following immediate actions or follow the additional course of actions as recommended by the committee:

IJMRSET editorial office shall immediately contact the Director / Dean / Head of the concerned College, Institution or Organization or the Vice Chancellor of the University to which the author(s) is (are) affiliated to take strict action against the concerned author. IJMRSET shall remove the PDF copy of the published manuscript from the website and disable all links to full text articles. The term Plagiarized Manuscript shall be appended to the published manuscript title. IJMRSET may also display the list of such authors along with their full contact details on the IJMRSET website. Any other course of action, as recommended by the Committee or as deemed fit for the instant case or as decided by the Editorial Board, from time to time.

2.Publication Ethics Policy:

Ethical standards for publication exist to ensure reliable & high-quality scientific research publications, public trust in scientific findings, and that researchers receive credit for their work & ideas.

IJMRSET follows strict Code of Conduct and aims to adhere to its Best Practice Guidelines.

Plagiarism:

All articles published by IJMRSET are committed to publishing only original material, i.e., material that has neither been published elsewhere, nor is under review elsewhere. Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will incur plagiarism penalty.

Duplicate Submission:

Manuscripts that are found to have been published elsewhere, or to be under review elsewhere, will incur duplicate submission sanctions. If authors have used their own previously published work, or work that is currently under review, as the basis for a submitted manuscript, they are required to cite the previous work and indicate how their submitted manuscript offers novel contributions beyond those of the previous work.

Improper Author Contribution or Attribution:

All listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript and approved all its claims. It is important to list everyone who made a significant scientific contribution, including students and laboratory technicians.

Redundant Publications:

Redundant publications involve the inappropriate division of study outcomes into several articles.

Citation Manipulation:

Submitted manuscripts that are found to include citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number of citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal, will incur a citation manipulation penalty.

Data Fabrication & Falsification:

Submitted manuscripts that are found to have either fabricated or falsified experimental results, including the manipulation of images, will incur data fabrication and falsification penalties.

Penalty:

In the event that there are documented violations of any of the above mentioned policies of IJMRSET, regardless of whether or not the violations occurred in a journal published by ESRSA, the following rules will be applied:

Immediate rejection of the infringing manuscript. Immediate rejection of every other manuscript submitted to any journal published by IJMRSET by any of the authors of the infringing manuscript. Prohibition against all of the authors for any new submissions to IJMRSET, either individually or in combination with other authors of the infringing manuscript, as well as in combination with any other authors. This prohibition will be imposed for a minimum of 2 years. Prohibition against all of the authors from serving on the Editorial Board of IJMRSET.

In cases where the violations of the above policies are found to be particularly offensive/flagrant, the publisher reserves the right to impose additional restrictions beyond those described above.

Reviewers:

Reviewers must maintain the confidentiality of the review process immediately alert their journal editor of any real or potential competing interest that could affect the impartiality of their reviewing and decline to review where appropriate conduct themselves fairly and impartially

We are aware, of course, that academics will come from a particular school of thought and/or may have strong ties to a particular interest. All we ask is that reviewers strive to act fairly. If in doubt about whether a conflict exists, a reviewer should be transparent and seek the views of the journal editor.

Editors:

Editors should:

maintain and promote consistent ethical policies for their journals oversee and act to enforce those policies as needed in a fair and consistent manner ensure the confidentiality of the review process exercise the highest standards of personal integrity in their work as editor of the journal, recognising and planning for instances where they could have a competing interest or the appearance of a competing interest work with authors, reviewers, and Editorial Board members as necessary to ensure they are sufficiently advised regarding their journals’ ethics and publishing policies and that the journal’s stewardship on ethical matters is fair, unbiased, and timely.

Everyone including Editorial Boards:

We should promote fairness and equality and oppose discrimination. We should promote the transparency of and respect for the academic recordWe should respect the confidentiality of others. We should be transparent about real or apparent competing interests.

3.Open Access Policy:

IJMRSET is loyal to open access for academic work. All the original articles and review papers published in this journal are free to access immediately from the date of publication. We don’t charge any fees for any reader to download articles and reviews for their own scholarly use.

Benefits of open access for authors, include:

Free access for all users world wide Authors retain copyright to their work, Increased visibility and readership Rapid publication, No spatial constraints.

The IJMRSET also operates under the Creative Commons Licence CC-BY. This allows for the reproduction of articles, free of charge with the appropriate citation information. All authors publishing with the IJMRSET accept these as the terms of publication.

4.Correction, Retraction, Withdrawal Policies:

Corrections:

Post Publishing:

Formatting or alignment issues can be resolved within 48 hours if the publication record is seriously affected with regard to the accuracy of published information based on the request raised by the author.

Retractions:

Notification of invalid results that affect the reliability of a previously published article. The original article is marked as retracted but remains available to readers, and the retraction statement notifying readers of the invalidity of the published paper is bi-directionally linked to the original published paper.

Withdrawal Policy:

Manuscripts may be withdrawn by submitting an email to the editorial office stating the reasons for manuscript withdrawal and manuscripts will be withdrawn in 48 to 72 hours.

5.Complaints Policy:

IJMRSET Journal takes each complaint with seriousness and handles it professionally and is guided by COPE’s policies and guidelines. The complainant issue is investigated and acted upon. Final decisions are conveyed to the complainant.

Journal holds awareness of the following complaints:

Authorship complaints Plagiarism Duplicate, multiple, concurrent publication, Misappropriation of Research results Allegations of research errors and fraud, Violations of Research standards, Undisclosed conflicts of interest Reviewer bias or acts of harm out of competition by reviewers

Guiding principles:

Mistakes and complaints are bound to happen during such a hectic process of compiling complex material at once. We recognize this fact and strive to address all complaints as quickly as possible. We believe that the intensity of problems can be reduced by acknowledging them at the right time. As a matter of fact, all the substantial errors and complaints are directly referred to Senior Editors.

Please address your query in a detailed manner to [email protected]

6.Refund Policy:

The Authors cannot withdraw the paper after the submission of publication fee (If Paper is Accepted). Fees submitted for a research paper will not be refunded as per our policy. It means Authors can withdraw their paper before paying the fee. We will not charge any review charge in the case of accepted paper.

In the case of any factual reason we can postpone the publication of your paper in any other issue or we can also consider another paper instead of the present paper (that you do not want to publish).

The authors who have submitted the extra fee mistakenly will be refunded to the author's account within 10 working days. For this authors have to inform us of the discrepancy with reason through [email protected] with a fee receipt.