Plagiarism and Retraction

Plagiarism Policy

Before going to the review process, all manuscripts will be checked that they are free from plagiarism practice using "Turnitin" software. If there an indication of plagiarism, the manuscript will instantly be rejected.

PLAGIARISM INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO:

  1. refer and/or quoting terms, words and/or sentences, data and/or information from a source without citing sources in the record citation and/or without stating the source adequately;
  2. refer and/or quoting random terms, words and/or sentences, data and/or information from a source without citing a source in the record citation and/or without stating the source adequately;
  3. using a source of ideas, opinions, views, or theory without stating the source adequately;
  4. formulate the words and/or sentences themselves from the source of words and/or phrases, ideas, opinions, views, or theory without stating the source adequately;
  5. submit a scientific paper produced and/or published by others as a source of scientific work without express adequately.

PREVENTION

In every article submitted to JoMISCSA must be attached to a statement signed by the author that:

  1. The article is free of plagiarism;
  2. if at a later proved there is plagiarism in the article, the author is willing to accept the sanctions in accordance with the legislation.

SANCTIONS

  1. reprimand;
  2. letter of warning;
  3. revocation of the article;
  4. cancellation of publication.

Retraction

The papers published in the JoMISCSA will be considered to retract in the publication if :

  1. They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error) 
  2. The findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication) 
  3. It constitutes plagiarism 
  4. It reports unethical research 

The mechanism of retraction follows the Retraction Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf