Plagiarism Check

Plagiarism is copying someone else's text or ideas and passing off the copied material as your own work. Authors need to delineate (i.e. separate and identify) the copied text from your text and give credit to (i.e. cite the source) the source of the copied text to avoid allegations of plagiarism. Plagiarism is considered fraud and has potentially harsh consequences including loss of employment, loss of reputation, and assignment of a reduced grade or failing a course.

 

This definition of plagiarism applies to both copied texts and ideas:

1. Regardless of the source of the copied text or idea

2. Regardless of whether the author of the text or idea you copied actually copied the text or idea from another source

3. Regardless of whether the author of the text or idea you copied is known or unknown

4. Regardless of the nature of your text (journal paper/article, web page, book chapter, paper submitted for a college course, etc.) in which you copied text or ideas

5. Regardless of whether or not the author of the source of the copied material gave permission for the material to be copied; and

6. Regardless of whether you are or are not the author of the source of the copied text or idea (self-plagiarism).

 

When plagiarism is identified by the Plagiarism Checker software, the Editorial Board is responsible for reviewing the paper and will approve measures according to the level of plagiarism detected in the article according to the following guidelines:

Mild (Minor) Plagiarism
A small sentence or short paragraph from another manuscript is plagiarized without any important data or ideas taken from another paper or publication.

Penalty: A warning is given to the author and a request to amend the manuscript and properly cite the original source.

Intermediate Plagiarism
Important data, paragraphs, or sentences from an article are plagiarized without proper citation from the original source.

Penalty: The submitted article is automatically rejected.

Severe Plagiarism
Most of the article is plagiarized which involves many aspects such as reproducing original results (data, formulations, equations, laws, statements, etc.), ideas, and methods presented in other publications.

Penalties: The paper is automatically rejected and the author is prohibited from submitting further articles to the journal.

 

Retraction
Articles published in Mirror of the World of Medicine will be considered retracted in publication if:

1. There is clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of errors (e.g. data generation) or honest mistakes (e.g. calculation errors or experimental errors)
2. Findings that have been published elsewhere without proper cross-referencing, permission, or justification (i.e. a case of over-publication)
3. Includes plagiarism
4. Unethical reporting of research

The retraction mechanism follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Retraction Guidelines which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf