Plagiarism Policy

IJSSER takes allegations of plagiarism very seriously. The act of copying text, ideas, images, or data from another source, including your own publications, without giving credit to the original source is referred to as plagiarism. When using text from another source, you must enclose it in quotation marks and provide a reference to the source from which the text was taken. Previous research must be explicitly cited in a study if it served as the impetus for the design of the study, the structure of the manuscript, or the language used in the manuscript.

All the submissions are checked for plagiarism with industry-standard plagiarism detection software (iThenticate). During the process of peer review, if plagiarism is found in the manuscript, it is possible that it will be rejected. After the article is published, if we find evidence of plagiarism, we will launch an investigation and take the appropriate disciplinary action outlined in our policies.

Please visit the SELF-PLAGIARISM Q&A FORUM.

Authorship and AI Tools

Read More about the COPE position statement.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT or Large Language Models in research publications is expanding rapidly. COPE joins organisations, such as WAME and the JAMA Network among others, to state that AI tools cannot be listed as an author of a paper.

AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements.

Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.