International Journal of Multidisciplinary Innovative Research in Engineering
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IJMIRE, published by KG Publication, is committed to the highest standards of publication ethics and the prevention of malpractice. The journal aligns its practices with the Core Practices and Best Practice Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
All parties involved — authors, reviewers, and editors — are expected to uphold these standards. The statements below set out the expectations for each role and the actions the journal will take in cases of suspected or confirmed misconduct.
IJMIRE takes plagiarism very seriously. All submitted manuscripts undergo similarity screening before being sent for peer review. The following practices constitute plagiarism and will result in immediate rejection or retraction:
All individuals listed as authors must have made a genuine, substantial intellectual contribution to the work. The journal applies the following authorship criteria:
Any changes to the author list after submission (additions, removals, or reordering) must be requested in writing to the Editor-in-Chief and approved by all co-authors.
Authors must submit only original work that has not been published elsewhere and is not under simultaneous review by another journal.
Authors must accurately represent their work. Data must not be fabricated, falsified, or selectively reported to support a pre-determined conclusion.
All authors must disclose any financial, personal, or institutional relationships that could be perceived to influence the work.
All sources that influenced the work must be properly acknowledged and cited. Permission must be obtained for copyrighted material.
Research involving human subjects or animals must have received appropriate institutional ethics committee approval. The approval reference must be stated in the manuscript.
The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring all co-authors have approved the final manuscript and agree to its submission.
If authors discover significant errors in their published work, they must promptly notify the Editor-in-Chief and cooperate with any correction or retraction.
Reviewers who cannot complete a review within the agreed timeframe must notify the editor immediately so an alternative can be arranged.
Manuscripts received for review are confidential documents. Reviewers must not share, discuss, or use unpublished information from manuscripts without explicit written consent of the authors.
Reviews must be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the authors is unacceptable. Reviewers must express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Reviewers must decline to review submissions where a conflict of interest exists and notify the editor accordingly.
Reviewers must not enter any part of a manuscript into AI tools (including generative AI systems) for any purpose, to protect manuscript confidentiality.
Reviewers should identify cases where relevant published work has not been cited by the authors.
Editors evaluate manuscripts solely on the basis of their scholarly merit, without regard to the authors' nationality, gender, institutional affiliation, religious or political beliefs.
Editors must not disclose information about submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the authors, reviewers, and the editorial team.
Editors must recuse themselves from handling manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest. Full recusal details are documented in the editorial workflow.
Editors must communicate decisions clearly to authors, providing reasons. Rejection letters provide sufficient information for authors to understand the grounds for the decision.
Editors must take all allegations of misconduct seriously and follow COPE guidelines in investigating and responding to them.
Authors are required to declare any use of generative AI tools in the preparation of their manuscript. The declaration must appear in the Methods or Acknowledgements section, specifying the tool used and the purpose.
IJMIRE does not publish manuscripts that have been previously published elsewhere or are currently under consideration by another journal.
Conference papers may be developed into journal submissions only if the journal version includes substantial new content. This development must be declared at submission and the prior conference paper must be cited in the manuscript.
The journal handles post-publication concerns in line with the COPE Retraction Guidelines. Three forms of notice may be issued:
Allegations of misconduct concerning a submitted or published manuscript may be raised in confidence by contacting the Editor-in-Chief via the Contact Us page.
The journal takes all allegations seriously and applies the relevant COPE flowcharts. Allegations are investigated regardless of the seniority of the parties involved or the time elapsed since publication.
This Plagiarism and Malpractice Statement is effective from January 2026. IJMIRE reviews this statement annually and updates it as practices evolve.