The JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY (JIARM) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of academic integrity and ethical publishing. The journal regards plagiarism as a serious academic and ethical violation, as well as an unlawful form of intellectual theft. Plagiarism is defined as the use of another person’s ideas, words, research, data, images, tables, diagrams, or any other intellectual work without proper acknowledgement, and presenting such material as one’s own original work. This includes, but is not limited to, copying content from books, journals, websites, research papers, dissertations, or any published or unpublished source without appropriate citation; submitting another person’s essay, project, or manuscript under one’s own name; reproducing exact text without quotation or reference; using photographs, figures, tables, audio, or visual materials without permission or acknowledgment; paraphrasing research findings without proper referencing; purchasing or obtaining written work from others and presenting it as original; and presenting ideas, arguments, or research structures in the same format and sequence as the original source without due credit.

By submitting a manuscript to JIARM, all author(s) confirm and certify that they fully understand that plagiarism is unacceptable and constitutes academic misconduct. Authors acknowledge that plagiarism involves the unauthorized use of another person’s ideas, interpretations, or published work while falsely claiming authorship. Authors further declare that all contributions derived from published or unpublished works of others have been properly acknowledged and accurately referenced. The author(s) accept full responsibility for ensuring the completeness and accuracy of all citations, references, and acknowledgments included in the submitted work.

As part of the submission process, authors are required to make an anti-plagiarism declaration confirming that the submitted manuscript is the result of their own independent scholarly work. Authors must ensure that all materials, including quotations, paraphrased content, data, and interpretations obtained from other sources such as books, articles, essays, dissertations, conference papers, or internet resources, have been properly acknowledged and clearly cited. Authors also confirm that no unreferenced material has been used and that the submitted work has not been previously published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere unless explicitly disclosed to the journal.

All manuscripts submitted to JIARM may be screened using plagiarism detection software as part of the editorial review process. If plagiarism, duplicate publication, or unethical copying is identified at any stage before or after publication, the journal reserves the right to reject the manuscript, request revisions, withdraw acceptance, retract the published article, notify the author’s affiliated institution, and take any other appropriate action in accordance with publication ethics.

To avoid plagiarism, authors are strongly encouraged to understand and follow proper citation and referencing practices, maintain accurate research notes, verify original sources of information when conducting online research, review their manuscripts carefully for proper attribution, and seek clarification whenever citation requirements are uncertain. When in doubt, authors should always provide appropriate citations, as over-citation is preferable to insufficient acknowledgment of original sources.