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Statement and policy | Similarity level | Plagiarism, similarity, and paraphrasing | Additional information
Statement and policy
Artificial Intelligence for Industry and Society (AIIS) applies a zero-tolerance policy toward plagiarism and has established the following guidelines outlining specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified in a submitted manuscript.
Definition: Plagiarism is defined as the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and representing them as one's own original work."
Policy: Manuscripts submitted to AIIS must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Text exceeding fair use standards (defined as more than two or three sentences or the equivalent thereof) or any reproduced graphic material requires permission from the copyright holder, and where feasible, the original author(s). Proper identification of the source, such as previous publication details, must also be provided.
All submitted manuscripts will be checked for similarity using Turnitin to ensure originality.
When plagiarism is identified, the Principal Editor responsible for the review of this paper and will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the paper in agreement with the following guidelines:
Similarity level
AIIS practices Zero tolerance towards plagiarism. We use iThenticate to evaluate the similarity index and then the editor decides the case of possible plagiarism (Similarity report will be provided to the author). The Editorial Board has passed the following actions:
1. Similarity Index above 40%: Article Rejected (due to poor citation and/or poor paraphrasing, article outright rejected, NO RESUBMISSION accepted).
2. Similarity Index (15-40%): Send to the author for improvement (provide correct citations to all places of similarity and do good paraphrasing even if the citation is provided).
3. Similarity index Less than 15%: Accepted or citation improvement may be required (proper citations must be provided to all outsourced texts).
In cases 2 and 3: The authors should revise the article carefully, add required citations, and do good paraphrasing to outsourced text. And resubmit the article with a new iThenticate report showing NO PLAGIARISM and similarity less than 15%.
