Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism policy adopted from UGC plagiarism Guidelines

As a part of intellectual property rights and plagiarism guidelines, Aram Hospital has adopted the following plagiarism guidelines stipulated by UGC. Therefore, the author needs to follow the citation policy: 

  • When 10 words are taken together from some established core work, citation becomes essential. 
  • Also, when the copied content reaches 40 words in accumulation, the fragment needs to be kept under inverted comma (“_”) in italic. 
  • Authors are necessarily required to cite reference in case of any content adopted from anywhere other than internet open sites. It is also that, even in case of open site internet source the copied contents if found more than 30 percent in aggregate during plagiarism detection, the work shall not be considered for further proceedings.
  • The proper attribution, seeking permission of the author wherever necessary, acknowledgement of source compatible with the needs and specificities of disciplines and in accordance with rules and regulations governing the source is essentially required. In case of found guilty of plagiarizing, we may ask the author to withdraw the submission.