Plagiarism policy

Plagiarism policy:

Plagiarism is taking or using someone else’s ideas, words, or other creative expression as one’s own. To put it another way, plagiarism is a violation of scientific ethics and may constitute copyright infringement, which is not only unethical but also illegal.

Plagiarism includes:

- This is when a writer copies parts (verbatim or near-verbatim) of another author without proper referencing and/or quotation. Using large sections from another paper without clear reference. Using equations, figures, or tables from another’s work without proper attribution and/or permission from the original author or copyright holder.

All submissions are checked for plagiarism through iThenticate. Papers with evidence of plagiarism will undergo the Desk Rejection stage. Using an acceptable similarity index which is ≤20% and no individual source >5% similarity. If a published article is found to be plagiarised, the journal will retract the article as per its retraction policy.