Plagiarism Policy

Mentor, the Journal of Academic Art and Design, is strictly against any form of unethical copying or plagiarism. Plagiarism occurs when a large portion of a work is copied from previously published existing sources. All research submitted for publication on Mentor is cross-checked for plagiarism using iThenticate/Turnitin software.

Plagiarism is the unethical act of copying someone else’s previous ideas, processes, results or words without clear credit to the original author and source. Self-plagiarism occurs when an author uses a large portion of their own previously published work without proper references. This can range from publishing the same research in multiple journals to replacing previously published research with some new data.

Research identified as plagiarism at the early stages of review will be rejected outright and will not be considered for publication in the journal. If a research is found to have been plagiarised after publication, the Editor-in-Chief will conduct a preliminary investigation with the assistance of an appropriate committee established for this purpose.

If the research is found to have been plagiarised beyond acceptable limits, the journal will contact the author’s Institute/University and funder, if any. Detection of inappropriate behavior will lead to Mentor publishing a bidirectional link to and from the original article online, noting the plagiarism and providing a reference to the plagiarised material.

The plagiarized article will also be flagged on each page of the PDF. Once the extent of plagiarism is determined, the article may be formally retracted.

Types of Plagiarism

The following types of plagiarism are considered by Mentor:

Full Plagiarism: Content that has been previously published without any changes to the text, ideas and grammar is considered full plagiarism. It involves presenting the full text from a source as one’s own.

Partial Plagiarism: If the content is a mixture of multiple different sources where the author has extensively rephrased the text, it is called partial plagiarism.

Self-Plagiarism: When an author reuses all or part of their previously published research, it is called self-plagiarism. Self-plagiarism is when an author republishes their own previously published work in a new journal.