Plagiarismn Policy

Plagiarism Policy

The editorial board recognizes that plagiarism is unacceptable and therefore sets the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) upon identifying plagiarism/similarity in articles submitted for publication in KING: Knowledge Integrated Networking for Global Sport and Health. KING: Knowledge Integrated Networking for Global Sport and Health will use Turnitin authenticity checking software as a tool to detect text similarities in article manuscripts and final version articles ready for publication. A maximum of 20% similarity is allowed for submitted manuscripts. If we find more than 20% similarity index, the article will be returned to the author for correction and resubmission.

Definition:

Plagiarism is "the use or close imitation of the language and thought of another author and representing it as one's own original work."

Policy:

Manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not in the process of being published elsewhere. Any material taken verbatim from another source must be clearly identified as distinct from the current original text by (1) indentation, (2) use of quotation marks, and (3) identification of the source.

Any text in excess of fair use standards (here defined as more than two or three sentences or the equivalent) or graphic material reproduced from another source requires permission from the copyright holder and, where possible, the original author and also requires identification of the source; for example, previous publications.

When plagiarism is identified, the Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the review of this paper and will approve measures according to the level of plagiarism detected in the paper according to the following guidelines:

Level of Plagiarism

Minor:

A short section of another article is plagiarized with no significant data or ideas taken from the other paper.

Action: A warning is given to the author and a request to change the text and properly cite the original article

Intermediate: A large portion of a paper is plagiarized without proper citation to the original paper

Action: The submitted article is rejected and the author is banned from submitting further articles for one year

Severe: A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized by reproducing original results or ideas presented in other publications

Action: The paper is rejected and the author is banned from submitting further articles for five years.