AS SOON AS PEER REVIEWER SUSPECTS DUPLICATION, HE REPORTS TO THE EDITOR AND IN TURN EDITOR CONVEYS THANKS AND REQUESTS THE PEER REVIEWER TO TRACE THE WRITTEN PROOF.
THE EDITOR ALSO ASCERTAINS DUPLICATION QUANTITATIVELY AND QUALITATIVELY WITH THE CATEGORY OF DUPLICATION WHETHER IT IS
Major (intolerable) : When major portion of the text / paper is duplicated without giving cross reference of original publication just by changing only the names/places etc.
- The editor gives written letter/email to the concerned author [s] seeking their undertaking w.r.t. their text/paper is genuine and unpublished.
- Either author replies (after consulting with other authors) and admit his/their mistake.
- In case of honest error, either concerned author [s] admits honest error or he expresses his unawareness of the journal’s rules or he admits that he is novice author. In all the cases the editor insists concerned author [s] to give cross reference of original publication.
- If he simply keeps silence and If the duplication is great extent then it becomes un-acceptable and the same is rejected by editor.
- When the author keeps silence, the editor contacts “Head of Department of Authors Institution” with a written letter and obtains acknowledgement and follows-up with him with an interval of every 2-4 months.
Minor(acceptable with correction) : When the editor is convinced that it is the case of minor error,
- He contacts concerning author [s] and expresses his unhappiness.
- He insists them to either remove the contents which have been duplicated or
- He requests authors to provide a cross reference of original publication
Minute (negligible) : Editor contacts concerned author [s] and suggests him to provide cross reference for the data translated/duplicated.