Dear Researchers, 

Plagiarism and Similarity are two different ideas. Plagiarism means the researcher has taken idea/inspiration from other's work and presented as the creator/owner of the idea. Its crime. Even after paraphrasing this information, researchers must give due citation to original author/researcher. At GIAP Journals we follow ZERO PLAGIARISM policy. It means researchers must give proper citation to all sources from where information has been taken. 

A simple way to avoid plagiarism is to give citations to all information, and data taken from other sources (including your own work published in other journals). 


A similarity index means the author has taken information from other sources and has copy-pasted as such without good paraphrasing. It indicates poor command of language. It is not a crime. You can reduce it by carefully seeing the similarity report given by GIAP editor and re-writing those parts in your words. At GIAP we take the following action for similarity index.


1. Similarity Index above 30% --> Article Rejected (due to poor citation and/or poor paraphrasing, article outright rejected, NO RESUBMISSION accepted)
 
2. Similarity Index (10-30%) --> Editor may send to the author for improvement [provide correct citations to all places of similarity and do good paraphrasing even if the citation is provided]
 
3. Similarity index Less than 10% --> May be accepted or citation improvement may be required. [proper citations must be provided  to all outsourced texts]
 
In case no 2 and 3: The authors should revise the article carefully, add required citations, and do good paraphrasing to outsourced text. And resubmit the article with new Turnitin report showing NO PLAGIARISM and similarity below 10%