Plagiarism

Authors are advised to observe high standards in the aspect of publication ethics. Any plagiarism (fabrication or falsification of data) is strictly unacceptable practice in SUSTENGINE, including duplicate publication of the author’s work without proper citation.

Every manuscript submitted for publication is checked for plagiarism via Turnitin after submission and before being sent to the editor for editorial review. Any detection of overlapping and similar texts in the manuscripts submitted will be investigated promptly and may lead to the manuscript being rejected.

ALLEGATIONS OF MISCONDUCT

SUSTENGINE is very sensitive to research misconduct and uses all means available to prevent publishing miscounted research. Though there is no standard definition of research misconduct, the Council of Editors defines research misconduct broadly in three categories of action and conduct. SUSTENGINE uses this definition of misconduct in dealing with the issue and strictly follows the COPE chart in dealing with research misconduct.  In addition, for each component of the research misconduct, SUSTENGINE has many assurance policies as follows

- Mistreatment of research subjects

-Falsification and Fabrication of data

-Piracy and Plagiarism