Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism is the representation of language, text, thoughts, ideas, or expressions of some other authors as one’s own original work. It also includes self-plagiarism, which includes duplicate/ redundant publication, text recycling, and salami slicing. PJMS follows COPE, ICMJE, & HEC (Higher Education Commission), Pakistan guidelines, standards, and policies regarding plagiarism. PJMS checks the similarity index by using TURNITIN software and the reports are conveyed to the authors if it is up to 40%. If it is >40%, it is declined without further processing. HEC does not allow an overall similarity of more than 19% and from a single source of more than 5% for the authenticity of the work. Authors may submit the similarity report as a supplementary file if they have already checked it. The attempt of plagiarism is academic dishonesty. If it is proved after the article is published, it will be retracted and the authors may be debarred permanently or temporarily and the parent institution may be intimated for departmental proceedings against the author as per HEC policies. If it is proven before the publication, the current article will be rejected and the authors may be debarred for one or more years for future submissions in this journal.