Plagiarism Policy | Tropical Aquatic and Soil Pollution

Tropical Aquatic and Soil Pollution (TASP)

Tropical Aquatic and Soil Pollution (e-ISSN: 2798-3056) is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal on theoretical and applied sciences related to aquatic and soil, all aspects of pollution and solution to pollution in the biosphere published biannual online by the Society of Tropical Science and Technology and Tecno Scientifica. Open Access — free for readers and authors, with no article processing charges (APC). High Visibility: indexed within Copernicus, CrossRef, Scilit, Google Scholar and many other databases. Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 3 weeks after submission. About TASP journal | All volumes & issues

The journal will not accept manuscripts that are plagiarized in any circumstances. The journal will verify the originality of the submitted manuscripts with Turnitin, the plagiarism detection software.

The editorial board has passed the following actions:

1. Similarity Index (>20%): Article Rejected. If a manuscript uses a text copied directly from another source, this text must be written in quotation marks and original source must be cited. If any kind of plagiarism is detected during the review process, the manuscript will be rejected.
2. Similarity index Less than <20%: Accepted or citation improvement may be required (proper citations must be provided to all outsourced texts).