Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism can be said to have clearly occurred when large chunks of text have been cut-and-pasted without appropriate and unambiguous attribution. Such manuscripts would not be considered for publication in Scientific Reports. Various forms of plagiarism like Verbatim plagiarism, Mosaic plagiarism, Paraphrasing and Self-plagiarism viz. Duplicate (redundant) publication, augmented publication, segmented publication, text recycling, Duplicate publication, Augmented publication, segmented (Salami or slice) publication, Cyber plagiarism, Text recycling, and Image plagiarism are all regarded as an academic crimes.

When plagiarism becomes evident post-publication, we 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.