Directly copying text or data from others without quotation marks and proper citation.
Paraphrasing others’ ideas or findings without crediting the original sourceis also considered plagiarism.
Duplicate submission, redundant publication, data fabrication, and falsified citations are all classified as academic misconduct.
2. AJSID Mandatory Requirements
By submitting, you warrant that the manuscript is not under simultaneous considerationelsewhere; any published or accepted content must be clearly disclosed.
All submissions must pass CrossCheck similarity screening(recommended similarity rate ≤ 10%).
Citations must be complete: every in-text citation must appear in the reference list, and vice versa.
Data sharing: Research data and documentation must be made publicly available unless restricted by privacy or confidentiality rules.
3. Consequences
Rejection
Retraction
Reporting to the American Sociological Association (ASA)