Ethics and Misconduct

The Journal of the Epidemiology Foundation of India has a zero-tolerance policy for publications linked to publication misconduct in order to protect the standards of academic integrity and respect for other people's intellectual property rights. Plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, inappropriate authorship, duplicate submission/multiple submissions, overlapping publishing, and salami publication are all examples of publication misconduct. According to PILA and COPE Committee criteria for publishing misconduct, we have created Journal of the Epidemiology Foundation of India definitions and policies, which are as follows:

  1. Plagiarism: The unjustified use of another person's words, ideas, data, statistics, research techniques, or other work without giving due credit, as well as the excessive citation of another person's published work.
  2. Fabrication: Without conducting the pertinent study, fabrication is the technique of inventing data or outcomes.
  3. Falsification: Falsification is the deliberate alteration of facts or results to lead to false conclusions.
  4. Inappropriate authorship: The author's contributions are not taken into account for determining authorship.
  5. Duplicate submission/multiple submissions: Refer to the act of submitting the same manuscript or multiple manuscripts with minor differences (e.g., differences only in title, keywords, abstract, author order, author affiliations, or a small amount of text) to two or more journals at the same time, or submitting to another journal within an agreed-upon or stipulated period.
  6. Overlapping publication: Publishing a paper that considerably overlaps with one that has already been published is referred to as an overlapping publication.
  7. Salami publication: Salami publication is the process of dividing data from a large study into smaller portions that could have been reported in a single paper and publishing them in two or more articles that all address the same population, techniques, and question.
  8. Cross-referencing references with the text

 

What If There Was Misconduct?

  • Immediate Rejection the manuscript or revoke the published article.
  • Not accept submissions submitted within two years by the same research team.
  • Informing the institution of the corresponding author.

Journal of the Epidemiology Foundation of India has also joined Crossref - iThenticate Similarity Check in the battle against plagiarism and to guarantee high ethical standards for all of the published papers. iThenticate Turnitin is a powerful tool for identifying plagiarised material, allowing our editors to protect the integrity of the journal and the authors' copyright.

We shall carry out detection on approved articles. A fair citation was generally considered to be one that did not exceed 200 words of overlap between the paper and the literature. When substantial amounts of text overlap are discovered (e.g., >5% overlap or >10% similarity), we immediately check to see if the article is linked to publishing misconduct. We may immediately enforce the aforementioned sanctions if publication misbehaviour with the material is discovered.