Plagiarism

Plagiarism is unacknowledged copying or an attempt to misattribute original authorship, whether of ideas, text, or results. We do not tolerate plagiarism in any of our publications, and we reserve the right to check all submissions through appropriate plagiarism-checking tools. Submissions containing suspected plagiarism, in whole or part, will be rejected. Journal of Dynamics and Control (JDC) editors assess all the following cases of plagiarism on their merits.

1. Plagiarism can be said to have occurred when large chunks of text have been cut and pasted without appropriate and unambiguous attribution.
2. Text recycling, or reuse of parts of text from an author’s previous research publication, is a form of self-plagiarism. When reusing text, whether from the author’s own publication or that of others, appropriate attribution and citation are necessary to avoid creating a misleading perception of a unique paper for the reader.
3. Duplicate publication occurs when an author reuses substantial parts of his/her own published work without providing the appropriate references. This can range from publishing an identical paper in multiple journals to only adding a small amount of new data to a published paper.

‘If plagiarism is discovered post-publication, Journal of Dynamics and Control (JDC) may correct or retract the original publication depending on the degree of plagiarism, context within the published article, and its impact on the overall integrity of the published study.’