Plagiarism Policy

SJCMS strictly follows the Higher Education Commission's (HEC) guidelines regarding the Plagiarism Policy. Each manuscript will be scrutinized for originality check by Turnitin. As per HEC policy, in case that a manuscript has been found to have a similarity index of more than 18% it will be immediately either returned back to the author for correction and resubmission or will be rejected and archived.

Please Note that the parameters for similarity check involve, Add to No Repository, Exclude Bibliography, Exclude Quoted Text.