UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION (PROMOTION OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND PREVENTION OF PLAGIARISM IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS) REGULATIONS, 2018 Click here

Plagiarism occurs if someone intentionally or knowingly copies others work or someone copies content without providing the appropriate references.

Plagiarism before Publishing

The Multidisciplinary Cosmopolitan Journal of Research (MUCOJOR)-2583-9829(Onlilne) International peer reviewed and Refereed Research Journal, online journal will judge any case of plagiarism based on its parameters. If a member of the editorial board, a reviewer, or an editor detects plagiarism at any step of the article process—before or after acceptance, during editing, or at the page proof stage. We will notify the author(s) and request that they update the text or cite the sources from which the content was derived. If more than 10% of the work is plagiarised, the article may be rejected and the author will be contacted.

When Plagiarism Check Done?

All the submitted manuscripts for publication are checked for plagiarism after submission and before starting review.

Why manuscripts with >10% Plagiarism is rejected?

If more than 10% plagiarism is discovered, the writers are highly unlikely to rewrite the article and submit the revised version. Nonetheless, authors are invited to make the necessary adjustments and resubmit the work.

Plagiarism appears in various forms

• Copying the same content from the other source. Purposely using portions of another author’s paper or content.
• Copying elements of another author’s paper, such as figures, tables, equations or illustrations that are not common knowledge, or copying or purposely using sentences without citing the source.
• Using exact text downloaded from the internet.
• Copying or downloading figures, photographs, pictures or diagrams without acknowledging your sources.
• Self-plagiarism is a related issue. In this document, we define self-plagiarism as the verbatim or near-verbatim reproduction of major sections of one's own copyrighted work without crediting the original source.
• One may be unaware that they are plagiarising. It is the author's (or authors') obligation to ensure that they understand the difference between quoting and paraphrasing, as well as how to properly credit content.