Code of Ethics

Research ethics involves application of fundamental ethical principles in performing scientific research.

The ethics that researchers should follow are listed below.

• Researchers should have the welfare of the research participant in mind as a goal and strive for the benefits of the research to outweigh the risks.
• Researchers should minimize financial and other influences that could bias their research results.
• Researchers should demonstrate honesty, confidentiality and truthfulness. They should not fabricate data, falsify results, or omit relevant data. They should report findings fully, eliminate bias in their methods, and disclose underlying assumptions.
• The scholar shall not publish research articles with similar contents in part or full in more than one journal, which would result in Self Plagiarism.
• Research Scholar should submit the copy of plagiarism check report to the concerned supervisor for a research paper before submitting to the journal/Conference.
• All Post Graduate Students’ thesis should include the copy of Plagiarism check report. Maximum of 15% of similarity is allowed for Ph.D. Thesis, Synopsis and Post Graduate Thesis.
• Researchers should minimize attempts to reduce the benefits of research on specific groups and to deny benefits from other groups
• Researchers should not exploit, or take unfair advantage of, research participants
• Researchers should engage only in work that they are qualified to perform, improve their skill sets, choose appropriate research methods, statistical methods, and sample sizes to avoid misleading results
• Researchers should engage in ethical research and promote ethical behaviors through practice, publishing and communicating, mentoring, teaching, etc.
• Researchers are expected to be honest in reporting methodology, test protocol adopted and their findings.
• Researchers should have moral responsibility of not to deceive fellow colleagues, collaborators, sponsors or funding agencies and the public.
• The Supervisors shall endorse the candidates to publish their research work in reputed (Scopus/ SCI//ESCI, indexed conferences / Journals / Workshops