Plagiarism Screening

The Pakistan Journal of Multidisciplinary Innovation (PJMI) is published by the International Research and Publishing Academy that has a membership of Turnitin, an online tool to help the editors verify the originality of submitted manuscripts. All submitted manuscripts are scanned with Turnitin to calculate the similarity index or plagiarism.

What is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is when an author attempts to pass off someone else works as his or her own. Duplicate publication, sometimes called self-plagiarism, occurs when an author reuses substantial parts of his or her own published work without providing the appropriate references. This can range from getting an identical paper published in multiple journals, to salami-slicing, where authors add small amounts of new data to a previous paper.

Plagiarism Policy of PJMI

  • PJMI is committed to promote and disseminate original research work relating to business management.
  • Plagiarism in any form cannot be tolerated by PJMI at any stage as it shows unethical publishing behavior.
  • All selected manuscripts will be screened for plagiarism by using Turnitin software.
  • The manuscript in which the plagiarism is detected is handled based on the extent of the plagiarism. A manuscript with less than a 19% similarity index can be accepted for publication.
  • If the manuscript has plagiarism < 19%, it will be given an ID and sent for the review process.
  • If the manuscript has plagiarism between 19-30%, it will be given an ID and sent back to the author for content revision.

In the case of suspected plagiarism in a published article:

  • A specific process is followed to manage a case of plagiarism. PJMI follows the guidelines contained in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) flowchart (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts).
  • The person who reported PJMI of the situation is informed about the process to be followed.
  • The articles are compared to check the degree of copying.
  • All editors of the JEMBA are informed and asked for their comments.
  • The corresponding author of the article in question is contacted with documentary evidence of the case of plagiarism and is asked for a response.
  • If the author(s) are found guilty of plagiarism
  • The editor of the journal in which the original plagiarized article was published and the authors of the plagiarized article are informed.
  • PJMI publishes an official retraction of the paper.
  • The online version of the PJMI article is withdrawn from the OJS host site, and PJMI will not publish any article by the author(s) concerned.