Plagiarism and Use of AI tools
Editorial Board of NJRCS adopts Turnitin Software (with AI features) to ensure that all articles submitted to the journal is free of plagiarism. A work will be rejected immediately if the plagiarism checker returns an unsatisfactory result.
Only manuscripts with a similarity value of 15% or lower will be subject to peer review process. If by any instnace, a published work turns out to be plagiarized, the Editorial board will take adequate measures to ensure that the work is withdrawn.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools
We recognize that the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in writing and research is growing. We anticipate that any such usage would adhere to our plagiarism policy, best practices for citation and acknowledgements, and be clearly disclosed and explained to readers in order to maintain transparency. Generative AI tools like ChatGPT and others should not be identified as authors because they do not meet authors requirement.
Specifically, if an AI tool is used to:
- create images in the manuscript
- to create text in the manuscript,
- legitimate references and citations
- analyse or extract insights from data or other materials
It must fully stated, described and explicitly disclosed in the appropriate sections such as the caption, and acknowledgement section.
We strongly discourage authors from presenting words, ideas, data and other materials generated using AI tools as their own without proper acknowledgement.
