Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism

Sampratyaya considers plagiarism (including self-plagiarism) as a serious violation of academic ethics and a practice of dishonesty; it is cheating, fraud and illegal.Plagiarism is a punishable offence and is governed by Section 57, 63 and 63(a) of Copyright Act, 1957. Copyright issue is seriously taken up. The following measures are taken to check plagiarism:

  1. Plagiarism is checked using plagiarism checker.
  2. Author(s) must submit declaration to the effect.
  3. Input from copy-editors and reviewers are taken into consideration.
  4. Insufficient or no acknowledgement to sources of information, words, tables, illustrations, quotes, thoughts and ideas is seriously viewed. For any evident lapse, clarification is sought from the corresponding author.
  5. Reference style (citation and bibliographic information) is seriously examined by the copy editors. The corresponding author is contacted to clarify any doubt.
  6. Methodology is properly examined. Often methodology also hints at originality of a work.