Plagiarism Policy

The Indian Journal of Animal Reproduction (IJAR) maintains a strict policy against plagiarism in all forms. Every submitted manuscript undergoes similarity screening.

1. Similarity Threshold

  • Maximum acceptable similarity: 15% excluding references

  • Tool used: Turnitin / iThenticate (or equivalent)

2. Types of Plagiarism Covered

  • Direct copying

  • Self-plagiarism

  • Mosaic plagiarism

  • Duplicate/overlapping publication

  • Image/table duplication

  • Unattributed paraphrasing

3. Editorial Actions

  • 0–15%: acceptable with proper citations

  • 15–30%: revision required

  • 30%: rejection

  • Post-publication detection → correction or retraction

4. Author Responsibility

Authors must ensure full originality and proper citation. Permissions must be obtained for reproduced content.