Originality and Plagiarism

JPAD employs Turnitin software to check the similarity index of all submitted articles, in line with our commitment to maintaining high standards of academic integrity. We endorse the definitions and guidelines for plagiarism set forth by COPE, ICMJE, and the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan (click for detail HEC policy).

Authors are responsible for ensuring the intellectual contribution and originality of their work and should be aware of various forms of plagiarism, including but not limited to: plagiarism of ideas, textual plagiarism, paraphrasing without proper citation, self-plagiarism, including redundant or duplicate publication, salami slicing (data fragmentation) and text recycling.

Ignorance of plagiarism or its forms will not be considered an excuse. If any manuscript submitted, accepted, or published in JPAD is found to be plagiarized, it will be handled according to COPE guidelines.