How to publish a research paper in international journal 2023

Intellectual property has value; therefore, there are ethical standards that need to be adhered to when it comes to writing in an academic environment. The objective of this blog is to define and explore the ethics of research writing, which is one of the most understated yet incredibly vital parts of successfully getting your work published in a high-impact, globally recognized international journal. International journals (especially fast publishing Scopus journals) look down on plagiarism and value authenticity highly. This blog offers insight on how to – 

• Use sources to build your credibility,
• Use sources to place a quote in its proper context, 
• Respect property rights and credit sources, 
• Properly document ideas and borrowed words, 
• Share merit and honor it in collaborative projects, 
• Honoring and crediting sources in online classes, 
• Requesting permission to post material onto your website. 

By studying instances of careful documentation as well as plagiarism, we can uncover the worst and the best of research projects and cite borrowed material. In addition, we have to deal with the constant problem of the World Wide Web, which makes it easy to download material, copy it, and paste it anywhere. Plagiarism is defined as claiming the words or ideas of another person like yours. 

Plagiarism is a serious infringement of the ethical standards for academic writing, and most research institutions, colleges, and universities impose very strict penalties, including academic probation or expulsion, on students who are guilty of plagiarism. The vast majority of schools publish an official student code of conduct (sometimes referred to as an academic integrity policy), and you should familiarize yourself with these guidelines and how they’re applicable to your research and writing. 

Students who knowingly copy entire passages from outside sources into their work without documentation commit the most flagrant form of plagiarism. Unintentional plagiarism, nevertheless, is and always will remain a violation of academic integrity. Unacknowledged use of another person’s phrases, expressions, or terminology is plagiarism, so offer a citation and use quotation marks to demonstrate exactly where you draw inspiration from others’ work. Similarly, the unacknowledged use of another researcher’s concepts, research, or approach is also deemed plagiarism, so write paraphrase very carefully if and when you choose to do so. Maintain and refer to a checklist of guidelines at all times to avoid unintentional plagiarism.

• Use Sources To Improve Your Credibility
  • Research is something you should share, not hide. 
  • What some students don’t realize is that citing a source in even the shortest of their articles signals something special and positive to your readers – 
    • that they’ve researched the topic, 
    • explored the literature on this subject, and 
    • that they’ve got the talent to share it. 
  • Academic writing exercises your critical thinking and your capacity to collect ideas. 
  • You will not only discuss the topic itself but also the literature on the topic, such as current Internet articles and periodicals found in your library databases. 
  • By clearly announcing the name of a source, you reveal the scope of your reading and, therefore, your credibility (take part in an online international conference to learn more about these notes). 

• Such notes, if transferred to the journal, will allow readers to identify the sources used. 
• The notes will clearly bear witness to the author’s investigation of the subject and enhance the image of the author as a credible researcher. 
• You will get credit for viewing the sources correctly. 
• The opposite, plagiarism, presents the information as if it were your own.

• Putting Your Work In Its Proper Context
  • Your sources will reflect all sorts of special interests, even biases, so you need to position them in your article as reliable sources. 
  • If you must use a biased or dubious source, let your readers know from the start. 
  • For example, if you’re writing about the dangers of virtual reality (VR) technology, you’ll find different opinions in a futurology journal, a health journal, and a business/advertising journal sponsored by a VR company. 
  • You owe it to those who will read your article, to carefully examine Internet sites and examine printed articles for –
    • Special interests likely to color the report,
    • Lack of credentials,
    • An unsponsored website,
    • Opinion-based speculations, especially those found on blogs and chat rooms,
    • Specialized magazines that promote particular interests,
    • Extremely liberal or extremely conservative positions.

• Understanding Copyright Laws 
  • The principle of copyright law is relatively simple. Copyright begins when a creative work is recorded in a tangible form – a written document, a drawing, a video recording. 
  • It does not depend on legal registration with the copyright office in Washington, DC, although published works are usually registered. 
  • So the moment you creatively express yourself on paper, in song, on canvas, that expression is your intellectual property. 
  • You have a direct interest in the profits derived from the distribution of the work. 
  • For this reason, songwriters, cartoonists, fiction writers, and other artists keep their work and don’t want it released without compensation.

• Copyright law in the context of social media continues to evolve due to advances and rapid changes in online technology. 
• The recent attempt to curtail the downloading of music to private computers is a demonstration of this concern. 
• The ease with which Internet users can distribute copyrighted information has greatly enhanced the prevalence of copyright infringement. 
• Nevertheless, it is important for the student researcher to distinguish their classroom efforts from profit-generating websites.

• Scholarly writing is not a lucrative profession, but writers certainly deserve recognition. 
• We can give this recognition by offering in-text citations and bibliography entries. 
• As a student, you may make use of copyrighted material in your research paper under a fair use doctrine as described in the US Code, which states – the fair usage of a copyrighted work for purposes including criticism, commentary, reporting, education (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research does not constitute copyright infringement.

• So, as long as you’re borrowing for educational purposes, like a handout for your instructor to read, you shouldn’t worry. 
• Simply offer the source proper acknowledgment and documentation.
• However, if you choose to publish your research paper on a website, new considerations come into play – regarding the requesting for permission to publish material on your website. 
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• Avoiding Plagiarism Like The Plague
  • There are several ways to avoid plagiarism. 
  • Firstly, maintain personal notes full of your own ideas on a topic. 
  • Find out what you think about the problem. 
  • Then, rather than copying sources one after another onto your text pages, try expressing your own ideas while synthesizing those of the authorities using a summary, a paraphrase, or a direct quote. 
  • Rethink and reconsider ideas gathered as you read, make meaningful connections, and when referring to one source’s exact ideas or words – as you inevitably will – give full credit to the other author.

• To repeat, plagiarism is offering another person’s words or ideas as your own.
• Major violations, which can result in failure in the course or expulsion from school, are –
  • Use of another student’s work, 
  • The purchase of a “canned” research document, 
  • Copy entire passages into a document without documentation, 
  • Copy a well-formulated key phrase in an article without documentation, 
  • Put specific ideas of others into your own words without documentation, 
  • Inadequate or missing citations, 
  • Missing quotes, 
  • Incomplete or missing Works Cited entry.

• Whether deliberate or not, these cases all constitute forms of plagiarism. Unintentional plagiarism is often the result of negligence. 
• For instance – 
  • The author omits quoted material but provides an in-text citation with the name and page number.
  • The author’s paraphrase never quite becomes a paraphrase – too much of the original is left untouched – but he or she provides a full citation of the name and page.

• In these situations, instructors should step in and help the beginning researcher because although these cases are not egregious cases of plagiarism, they can spoil otherwise excellent research.

• Taking Into Account Common Knowledge
  • You don’t need to document information that is considered “common knowledge”. However, how do you know what constitutes and what doesn’t constitute common knowledge? You should make use of the following criteria to determine whether or not particular information can be considered common knowledge –

• Local knowledge
  • You and your reader could share local or regional knowledge on a topic. 
  • For example, if you study at Harvard University, you don’t need to cite the fact that your university is based in Massachusetts and that Boston is the capital of Massachusetts. 
  • Information of this type does not require any in-text citation, as the following example shows.

• Shared Experiences
  • Classes and lectures will give you and your class members a similar perspective on the subject.

• Common Facts
  • Common factual info that one might find in an almanac, factbook, or dictionary needn’t be quoted.

• Common Knowledge That Doesn’t Have To Be Documented 
  • You don’t have to –
    • document the source if any reasonably intelligent person would and should know of the information, given the context of both the author and the audience.
    • document terminology and info from a classroom environment that has become common knowledge to all the members of the class.
    • document the source if you knew of the information without having to read it in an article or book.
    • record almanac-type information, such as date, place of birth, occupation, etc.

document information that has become public knowledge by being repeatedly reported in many different sources (for example, Niel Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon). 

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• Borrow Correctly From A Source
  • There are massive differences between the precise use of a source and the dark undertones of plagiarism. 
  • You should try and look up examples of such plagiarism, comparing the original reference material along with their plagiarised versions. 

• Credit Sharing In Collaborative Projects
  • Joint authorship is rarely an issue in collaborative writing, especially if each member of the project understands their role. 
  • Normally, all team members receive equal credit. 
  • However, you might find it helpful to determine some issues in advance with your peer group and the instructor –
    • How will the project be judged, and how will scores be awarded?
    • Will all members receive the same grade?
    • Can a non-performer be expelled from the group?
    • Does each member have to write a section of the work, and everyone edits it?
    • Should some members write the draft and other members edit it and post it on the web?
    • Can the group work together via email rather than meeting frequently for group sessions?

• Resolving these issues at the start of a project can go a long way to eliminating tangles and disagreements later on. 
• It is important to note that publishing your collaborative project electronically on the web raises additional legal and ethical issues.

• Honoring & Crediting Sources In Online Classes
  • An ever-growing trend in education is the web-based course or online course via email. 
  • In general, you should follow the doctrine of fair use of printed sources, that is, giving proper credit and reproducing only limited portions of the original.
  • The rules are still nascent, and even faculty members are often in a dilemma about how to convey the information. 
  • For educational purposes, the rules are quite loose, and most publishers have made their texts or parts of them available on the web. 
  • Also, the copyrights of many works have expired, are now in the public domain, and are therefore free. 
  • Additionally, many magazines and newspapers have published online versions of their articles that are available for free.

• The following info has got to be documented –
  • Any original idea derived from a source, whether quoted or paraphrased.
  • Your original idea summary by a source.
  • Factual information that is not common knowledge 
  • Any exact wording copied from a source.

• What you send back and forth with your classmates and the instructor(s) has little privacy and even less protection. 
• When sharing an electronic communication, follow a few common-sense principles – 
  • Cite sources in your online communications as you would in a printed research paper, with a few variations –
    • The author, creator, or webmaster of the website,
    • The title of the electronic blog/article,
    • The title of the website,
    • The date of publication on the Web,
    • The publication medium (the Internet),
    • The date you accessed the site.
• Upload to your file only graphic images and text from sites that have specifically offered users the right to download them. 
• Graphic images and non-free text, especially an entire website, should be mentioned in your text, even paraphrased and quoted in a limited way, but not uploaded to your file. Instead, link to them or direct people to them with URLs. This way, your reader can find the material and see it as a complement to your text.
• Ask permission if downloading substantial blocks of material. Attending a high-profile 2023 international conference will help you get more pertinent info if you wish to publish your work on the web.
• If in doubt, check with your instructor, mailing list moderator, or website author via email.

• Request Permission To Publish Material On Your Website
  • If you have your own homepage and website, you might want to publish your research on the web. 
  • However, the moment you do so, you publish the work and put it in the public domain. 
  • This act carries responsibilities. In particular, the United States Code’s fair use doctrine refers to the personal, educational purposes of your use. 
  • When you upload borrowed images, text, music, or artwork to the Internet, you are making that intellectual property available to anyone, anywhere in the world.

• Short quotes, a few graphics, and a small number of illustrations to support your argument are examples of fair use. 
• However, authorization is required if the amount you are borrowing is large.
• Borrowing cannot impact the market for the original work, and you cannot possibly misrepresent it. 
• The courts are still fine-tuning the law. 
• For example, would your use of two comics related to your research topic be substantial? 
• Yes, if you reproduce them in full. 
• Would this affect the comic book market? Maybe. Follow these guidelines –
  • Ask permission for the copyrighted material you post in your web article. Most authors will grant you free permission. The problem is to find the copyright holder.
  • If you are trying to get permission and your reason for using the material is not for profit, you are unlikely to have problems with the copyright holder. The owner will have to prove that your use of the image or text caused them financial harm.
  • You may publish works that are in the public domain, such as a section of The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne or a speech by the President of the United States, without permission.
  • Document all the sources you present on your website.
  • If you provide hyperlinks to other sites, you may need to obtain permission to do so. Some sites don’t want their address clogged with nosy students. However, at present, Internet access rules are freely interpreted.
  • Prepare for people to visit your website and even borrow from it. Decide in advance how you will handle requests for the use of your work, especially if this includes your creative endeavors in poetry, art, music, or graphics.

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• Your Research Project
  • Start now to maintain a systematic review of what you borrow from your sources. 
  • Remember that the direct quote reflects the voice of your source, and the paraphrase reflects your voice. 
  • Just make sure with a paraphrase that you’re not borrowing the exact wording from the original.
  • Check your college newsletter and student handbook. 
  • Are they talking about plagiarism? 
  • Do they address the issue of copyright protection?
  • Get advice from your writing instructor whenever you have a query about your usage of a source. 
  • First-year-level writing instructors are here to serve you and help you avoid plagiarism (among other responsibilities).
  • If you think you might publish your article on the Web and if it contains substantial borrowings from a source, such as five or six New Yorker magazine cartoons, start asking permission to reproduce the material now. In your email or letter, make sure you include –
    • your full name, 
    • the name of your school, 
    • the subject of your thesis, 
    • the material you wish to borrow, and 
    • the use you will make of it. 
  • You may copy or attach the page(s) of your article in which the material appears.

Following these guidelines to avoiding plagiarism when you’re preparing your manuscript will help you make sure that you’ve got a world-class manuscript that displays all the signs of a highly informative, authentic, and informative body of work that is worthy of being published in any high-impact international journal worth its salt.  

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