Plagiarism Policy

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) defines plagiarism as:

“When somebody presents the work of others (data, words or theories) as if they were his/her own and without proper acknowledgment.”

 Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Once a manuscript is submitted to Journal, the editorial office conducts a preliminary check with respect to plagiarism. If plagiarized content is less than 15%, the author may be asked to revise the manuscript. If substantial plagiarism (>15%) is noticed in manuscript content or part thereof, the manuscript is straight away rejected. Journal reviewers also conduct the plagiarism check in a similar manner and can make recommendations whether or not to consider the manuscript further. Even after acceptance of the manuscript or post-publication, if the plagiarism/duplication/re-publication of already published work in any language is observed, the case is referred to the Journal executive board who conducts a full inquiry giving due opportunity to the concerned authors. In case of violation of provisions contained in author agreement or of grave and unethical misconduct as a researcher with respect to publishing the work, the published article may be retracted with no refund/adjustment of manuscript handling fee under intimation to authors institution/funding agency.

For Journal of Otolaryngology and Rhinology Research, this applies to data, images, words or ideas taken from any materials in electronic or print formats without sufficient attribution. This can include:

  • Abstracts

  • Seminar presentations

  • Laboratory reports

  • Thesis or dissertation

  • Research proposals

  • Computer programs

  • Online posts

  • Grey literature

  • Unpublished or published manuscripts

The use of any such material either directly or indirectly should be properly acknowledged in all instances. You should always cite your source 

In addition to the direct copying of text, with or without paraphrasing, from a single source without proper acknowledgement, the common types of plagiarism are:

Patchwork plagiarism

This is when text is lifted from a few different sources (which may include your own previous work) and put into your manuscript to create the impression of new text.

This includes rewording pieces of sourced material while keeping the structure/syntax of the original texts.

Self-plagiarism/ text-recycling

This is the redundant reuse of your own work (e.g., text, data, and images), including text translated from another language, usually without proper citation. It creates repetition in the academic literature and can skew meta-analyses if you publish the same sets of data multiple times as “new” data. Two forms of self-plagiarism include:

  • Redundant/ duplicate publication: is the publication of what is essentially the same paper in more than one journal, but without indication that the paper has been previously published elsewhere.

  • Salami slicing (salami publication): is the segmentation of a large study which should have been reported in a single paper into smaller published studies.

Other types of plagiarism also exist. What they all have in common is that there is a lack of transparency to the original source of the material which has been used in the manuscript.