Journal of Plasticity Engineering

1. This journal adopts academic misconduct detection system of CNKI for automatic detection, with which the related search engines are used for testing additionally, and taking the China Literature Journals Full-text Database as the comparative database, the academic misconduct behaviors are tested such as copy and plagiarism, forgery, tampering, improper attribution, duplicate submission, etc.

2. Identification of misconduct

If the duplication rate exceeds 10% after paper testing in academic misconduct detection system of CNKI, the testing result and paper will be submitted to reviewers who will determined the repetition nature and form. The reviewers will give the identification result and treatment advice. The criteria for identification of academic misconduct paper are as follows：

1）Copy achievements of others’ intactly or basically as your own;

2）Change the type of others’ achievements as your own； use the protected achievements by copyright and change their specific forms as your own;

3）Take others’ protective ideas as the total, core or main ideas of your own paper；take others’ protective academic achievements as the main body or substantial part of your own paper;

4）Fabricate or tamper the research achievements, survey data, experimental data or documents information;

5）Cite others’ protective ideas, schemes, information, date and so on, but no comments or original source are listed;

6）A paper casting two or more journals.

3. Treatment methods of identified academic misconduct papers

1）The editorial department will informs authors timely who is responsible for the academic misconduct paper identified prudently, allowing the authors to explain and defend for this issue before making the terminal decision;

2）If the paper has been received without officially publishment, the editorial department will inform authors that the paper will be rejected and the employment qualification will be canceled. In addition, the author will receive criticism education and warning;

3）If the paper has been officially published, the editorial department will inform the author literately that the accepted qualification will be canceled and the remuneration should be paid back. If there is additionally loss in reputation or others to the journal, we will reserve the right to recourse claims;

4）If the circumstances are serious, the authors’ name and their departments will be publicly notified on the journal at some specific date and the withdraw of this right paper will be also notified. What’s more, the events will be notified to the authors’ work unit and other science and technology journals in this area;

5）For authors who are accused of serious plagiarism or cast one paper in multiple journals as the first author, the journal will not accept their papers in 3 years.

4. Treatment of the dissent of authors

If authors disagree with the identification and treatment result of the journal, they can apply for recheck literally to the editorial department within 10 days after receiving the information. The editorial department will invite experts to re-review the papers and then make the terminal decisions. Authors will be informed in 30 working days.

The above provision will be put into force from the date of release and the editorial department of Journal of Plasticity Engineering is responsible for the interpretation.

Editorial Department of Journal of Plasticity Engineering