Policy against Plagiarism

The Editorial board of The Progress in Physics of Applied Materials takes the necessary measures to examine the incoming papers on their originality, reliability of contained information and correct use of citations. The Editorial board of the Journal acknowledges that plagiarism is unacceptable and therefore establishes the following policies that state-specific actions, if plagiarism is identified in a manuscript submitted for publication in The Progress in Physics of Applied Materials.

Plagiarism in any forms, including quotations or paraphrasing of substantial parts of another’s article (without attribution), “passing off” another’s article as the author’s own or claiming results from research conducted by others, constitutes unethical publishing behavior is unacceptable. The authors must ensure that the submitted manuscript describes completely the original work and free from any aspect of plagiarism. All authors are suggested to use a plagiarism detection software to do the similarity checking. Care should be taken to ensure that the work has not been published before in any language and is not simultaneously submitted to other journals (Multiple submissions unacceptable).

If any of the above unethical publishing behavior is detected by the Journal Editorial office or by one of the reviewers, the paper will be immediately rejected and the Editorial Board will communicate with the author(s) to demand an explanation and the amendment of the plagiarized content. If the author(s) does not respond within a reasonable length of time or does not make the necessary adjustments, the editor of other journals (for Multiple submission) and the author's respective institution are notified and the authors’ name are blacklisted and they will not be able to submit manuscripts to The Progress in Physics of Applied Materials.

If plagiarism is reported by someone after publication of an article, the case will be investigated by the Journal’s Editorial Board, and if the plagiarized content is noticeable, the article will be withdrawn from the archive of our journal and the author's respective institution are notified and the authors’ name are blacklisted.

Check for Plagiarism

At first step, the manuscript is inspected for plagiarism, and depending on the similarity check software report by iThenticate, the manuscript is either progressed into the review phase or rejected due to similarities. The acceptable similarity percentage is less than 30%.