Abstract: Academic dishonesty is a global phenomenon at universities. Academic dishonesty considerably affect the quality of sci-tech journals. It is important to prevent upfront and eliminate the misconduct at the early stage in the publication process. Editors should take measures to preclude academic dishonesty when the manuscripts are submitted to editorial boards. It is not enough to rely only on plagiarism detection softwares. Meanwhile, the editors should manually inspect the related information during the process of submission to recognize the manuscripts involving academic dishonesty.

Key words: academic dishonesty, received submissions, precaution