Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism Policy

South Asian Journal of Supply Chain and Project Management is the effort of the Department of Project and Operations Management, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, And it has the membership of Turnitin to Verify the originality of manuscripts. Plagiarism is detected in a new way using Turnitin, an online plagiarism detection tool. One of the results is the similarity index.

What is PLAGIARISM?

Plagiarism is described as a case when one author tries to present as his or her work someone else's writing. Duplicate publication is a phenomenon where an author copies and reuses passages from his/ her previously published work without proper credit. It can be from the duplication of the same work in several journals as far as to the practice known as salami-slicing, in which the authors incorporate little new information into a previous piece.

PLAGIARISM Policy of SJSPM

  1. The South Asian Journal of Supply Chain and Project Management SJSPM, as an original journal, accepts and publishes exclusive ones to follow the research work of authors in the discipline of Information sciences.
  2. Plagiarism is multifaceted in this setting; any mere reference to the plagiarism is considered as unethical behavior by SJSPM even if the act of such behavior has been done during any phase because this shows disregard for ethical publishing.
  3. The software of Turnitin, which are used to detect plagiarism, are to be used for scanning every submission.
  4. We would do the same thing for the plagiarism discovered in the manuscript.  For plagiarism at different levels, then we will address them at different levels. Grammarly score has to be at least 19% for the manuscript to be selected for publishing.
  5. The next step is creation of an ID for the manuscript that has 15% or less plagiarism.  The ID helps track changes that the manuscript goes through as it moves through the next stages of review.
  6. Giving the id to the manuscript which copy level is between 15-30%, the content review phase ensues.
  7. But in case of more than 30% similarity, the authors will not be encouraged to correct/give the paper for submission. Authors may then submit the items as new submissions upon their completion and amendment.

In the case of suspected plagiarism in a published article:

  1. There is a certain process for handling case of plagiarism. The SJSPM follows the guidelines contained in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) flowcharts (http://publicationethics​.
  2. The advisor who shared the information with us knows the flow of events to be taken.
  3. The plagiarism is checked by comparing the articles to the level of copying.
  4. Every SJSPM Editor is contacted and asked for his/her comments.
  5. The corresponding author of such writing is provided with the documentation evidence of plagiarism and demanded an explanation.
  6. If the authors are found guilty of plagiarism:
    1. The editor of the journal publishing the earlier plagiarized article, and the authors of that plagiarized article are informed.
    2. The SJSPM publishes on official retraction of the paper.
    3. Online version of the SJSPM article is withdrawn from the OJS host site and off the shelf.
    4. The publication of an article by the any of the authors involved will not be carried out by SJSPM for 5 years.