20, May 2025

Role of Plagiarism in the Quality of Academic Research

VOLUME-11; ISSUE-5; MAY-2025

Author(s): Dr. Vinod Kumar

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Assistant Professor., Sociology. Vallabh Government College  Mandi Himachal Pradesh 175001 India.

DOIs:10.2015/IJIRMF/202505002     |     Paper ID: IJIRMF202505002


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Abstract: “In the twenty first century, the electronic publishing became the dominant form of scholarly communication. The scholarly material is available in the public domain with easy access even 6 on single platform. Therefore, the copying of data is very easy. It has been observed by many studies that Generation ‘Z’ scholars need information by any means; they are less concerned with the ethics, copyright and plagiarism issues. Hence, the plagiarism is a burning issue now-a-days amongst the academic societies. The digital world highly influenced from a plague of plagiarism.” After undergoing the previous studies, it has been observed that in India’s academic context, the work on plagiarism is negligible, even the concept is still underprivileged as could not define that how to deal with the same in complex digital society. Moreover, the awareness among the research scholars regarding this concept is up to the literary meaning only. Considering these facts and for the purpose, the following objectives are formulated in the present research paper . 
  • To explain the present state of plagiarism in Different Academic fields.
  • To elicit the factors influencing the incidence of plagiarism.
  • To know how to deal with plagiarism by using the deterrence tools.
  • To study the role of Library to combat with plagiarism in digital era.
   
Keywords  : Misappropriation, Negligible, Influenced, Research Integrity , substantial  and Unattributed.

Dr. Vinod Kumar(2025); Role of Plagiarism in the Quality of Academic Research, International Journal for Innovative Research in Multidisciplinary Field, ISSN(O): 2455-0620, Vol-11, Issue-5, Pp.6-11.         Available on –   https://www.ijirmf.com/

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