Plagiarism Policy and Guidelines

1. All the articles submitted to Pakistan Journal of Social Issues (PJSI) should be free of plagiarism and have not been submitted to any other publishing agency.
2. Authors are also informed that self-plagiarism is not allowed at any level.
3. PJSI defines self-plagiarism as the intended or unintended reuse of one’s own copyrighted research work without citing the original source.
4. PJSI will check similarity with Turnitin software, as recommended by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Islamabad, Pakistan.
5. It is important to mention that PJSI only accepts those articles whose similarity index produces by TURNITIN is less than 19 percent and the similarity from a single source should not be more than 5 percent.
6. All the papers not following HEC Pakistan guidelines for similarity index will be directly rejected without any other explanation.
7. PJSI will practice and follow the guidelines of HEC Pakistan in terms of similarity index.