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• The Ethics of Self-Plagiarism

In this site, self-plagiarism is strictly prohibited. We will not publish any work that has committed self-plagiarism. If the idea of your work is the same as a published work (even the wordings are rephrased), we may considered it as self-plagiarism. Unless you have obtained written approval from the publisher whom published your work, we will not publish a work which is suspicious of self-plagiarism.

A common question we always received: how different is different? We usually said: if the idea (not the wordings) of two works has at least 30% different, then plagiarism usually does not apply, because one work could be regarded as an extension/expansion of the other work. The meaning of new idea is not simply the addition of proofs, tables or figures, but is the addition of some solid content materials. A good reference is from ACM TODS:

• 30% Rule Policy and Self-Plagiarism Policy

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