Plagiarism Policy

 

Journal of Society Medicine seeks to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of articles published in the journal. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Where an article is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgment, or where authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article (removing it from the journal); taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author’s institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies and banning the author from publication in Journal of Society Medicine. 

Authors must ensure that their original report is free from plagiarism. Authors are advised to maintain the similarity index of their manuscript no more than 20%. Very manuscript that submitted into Journal of Society Medicine is going to be scanned using Turnitin (similarity check). The similarity threshold is 20%. We will reject the manuscript with similarity rate above 20% and inform the author immediately through the email.

Download Plagiarism Statements here