Plagiarism Policy

The following types of plagiarism are considered by Journal of Biotropical Research and Nature Technology (abbreviated as J. Borneo):

  1. Full Plagiarism: Previously published content without any changes to the text, idea and grammar is considered as full plagiarism. It involves presenting exact text from a source as one’s own.
  2. Partial Plagiarism: If content is a mixture from multiple different sources, where the author has extensively rephrased text, then it is known as partial plagiarism.
  3. Self-Plagiarism: When an author reuses complete or portions of their pre-published research, then it is known as self-plagiarism. Complete self-plagiarism is a case when an author republishes their own previously published work in a new journal.

Policy and Action for Plagiarism

Journal of Biotropical Research and Nature Technology (abbreviated as J. Borneo) respects intellectual property and aims at protecting and promoting original work of its authors. Manuscripts containing plagiarized material are against the standards of quality, research and innovation. Hence, all authors submitting articles to Journal of Biotropical Research and Nature Technology are expected to abide ethical standards and abstain from plagiarism, in any form. Journal of Biotropical Research and Nature Technology shall take serious action against published manuscripts found to contain plagiarism and shall completely remove them from Journal of Biotropical Research and Nature Technology website and other third party websites where the paper is listed and indexed.

Plagiarism Checker Process

We will actively carry out a similarity check of all incoming manuscripts using the Turnitin software to avoid plagiarism. We highly appreciate the authors' original manuscripts. So, we will carry out at least 2 times the similarity check of the manuscript. We will provide a maximum tolerance of 25% for all manuscripts. The results of the similarity check cannot be completely refuted by the authors. We are continuously tightening this stage in order to produce a quality scientific research.