Plagiarism

Plagiarism Policy

Articles submitted to Innovative Research in Civil and Environmental Engineering (IRCEE) will be checked for plagiarism. IRCEE will promptly reject any papers found to contain plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Prior to being sent to reviewers, submissions are initially checked for similarity by a member of the editorial team. Papers submitted to Innovative Research in Civil and Environmental Engineering (IRCEE) must have a similarity level below 25% (excluding the bibliography), and the similarity score for any single source must not exceed 1%.


Definition of Plagiarism

Plagiarism is presenting another person's ideas or words as your own without proper permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or due to the failure to properly cite sources. Plagiarism can take several forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing someone else's work. To accurately determine if plagiarism has occurred, we consider the following situations:

  • Literal Copying: This involves directly copying another author's work word for word, in whole or in part, without permission, acknowledgment, or citation. This can be detected by comparing the original source with the suspected plagiarized manuscript.

  • Substantial Copying: This occurs when an author reproduces a significant portion of another person's work without permission, acknowledgment, or citation. This can refer to both the quantity and quality of the copied material, often assessed in the context of intellectual property. Quality refers to the importance of the copied text relative to the entire work.

  • Paraphrasing: This involves taking ideas, words, or phrases from a source and rewriting them in new sentences. This becomes unethical when the original source is not properly cited or acknowledged. This form of plagiarism is more challenging to detect.


Forms of Plagiarism Include But Are Not Limited To:

  • Quoting terms, words, sentences, data, or information from a source without citing the source in the citation record or adequately stating the source.
  • Quoting random terms, words, sentences, data, or information from a source without proper citation or acknowledgment.
  • Using ideas, opinions, views, or theories from a source without adequately stating the source.
  • Rewriting words or sentences from a source's ideas, opinions, views, or theories without adequately stating the source.
  • Submitting scientific papers produced or published by others as one's own work without proper acknowledgment.

Prevention

Innovative Research in Civil and Environmental Engineering (IRCEE) will ensure that every published article does not exceed a 25% similarity score. Plagiarism screening will be conducted using Turnitin.


Sanctions

  • Reprimand
  • Warning letter
  • Revocation of the article
  • Cancellation of publication