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Code of Ethics is to check malpractices and plagiarism in research

Objective:

To create awareness among faculty and students about conduct of research, promotion of academic integrity, prevention of malpractices and plagiarism in research at higher education institutions.  
To develop a system to detect and prevent plagiarism in research publications, books and book chapters of faculty and dissertation/thesis of PG students.

Procedure:

The following procedure is adopted by the college to check plagiarism in the thesis / dissertation / publication of research papers/chapters in books / full-fledged books and any other similar.

  • The research papers of the faculty/ student before sending to any journal or conference, it is run through anti-plagiarism software for checking the similarity index.
  • Levels of Plagiarism would be quantified into following levels in ascending order of severity:  
Level Similarity Range Action
Level 0 Up to 10% Accept
Level 1 Between 10% > 30% Permissible
Level 2 Between 30% > 60% Resubmit
Level 3 Above 60% Reject
  • A centralized facility for research publication check is established by Incubation and quality assurance cell [IQAC] of our Institute. The IQAC cell will check the publications by Faculty/students to ensure that the research paper similarity index is below 30%.
  • If the similarity index (threshold acceptable authenticity) is less than 30%, then the clearance will be given to the paper for publication.