Plagiarism Policy
Advances in Sports Research, Review and Trends (ASRRT) maintains a strict policy against plagiarism to protect the integrity of scholarly publishing. The journal defines plagiarism as the use of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without proper acknowledgment.
- Screening for Plagiarism
- All submitted manuscripts are subject to plagiarism screening using plagiarism detection software before entering the peer review process.
- Manuscripts with a similarity index exceeding the journal’s acceptable threshold (typically 20% excluding references, quotations, and methodological texts) may be returned to authors for revision or rejected.
- Types of Plagiarism Considered Unacceptable
- Direct Plagiarism: Copying text word-for-word without quotation or citation.
- Self-Plagiarism: Republishing the author’s own previously published work without disclosure or proper citation.
- Mosaic Plagiarism: Borrowing phrases from a source without quotation, even if cited.
- Paraphrasing Plagiarism: Rewriting another’s ideas without proper acknowledgment.
- Consequences of Plagiarism
- Manuscripts found to contain plagiarism will be immediately rejected.
- If plagiarism is discovered after publication, the article may be retracted, and a retraction notice will be issued.
- Authors involved in plagiarism may be blacklisted from future submissions to the journal.
- Author Responsibility
- Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts are free from plagiarism and properly cite all sources.
- Authors are encouraged to check their manuscripts with plagiarism detection software prior to submission.
By submitting to ASRRT, authors acknowledge and accept this plagiarism policy as part of the publication ethics of the journal.
