Medical Science Journal for Advance Research (MSJAR) recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions and penalties when plagiarism is identified in an article submitted for publication. All manuscripts will be subjected to pre-screening for plagiarism using Turnitin Software. The editor will conduct the screening process once the manuscript is received.

Levels of Plagiarism and Actions

A short section of another article is plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the other paper.

A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized without proper citation to the initial paper.

A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized that involves reproducing original results or ideas presented in another publication.

It is understood that all authors are responsible for the content of their submitted paper as they all checked the Medical Science Journal for Advance Research Plagiarism Checklist Form.

If a penalty is imposed for plagiarism, all authors will be subject to the same punishment.

If a second case of plagiarism by the same author(s) is identified, a decision on the measures to be enforced will be made by the Editorial Board, consisting of the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial members.

The author(s) might be forbidden to submit further articles forever. This policy also applies to material reproduced from another publication by the same author(s).

If an author uses text or figures that have previously been published, the corresponding paragraphs or data should be identified and the previous publication referenced.

Permission to republish must be obtained from the copyright holder. The author should identify the source of previously published material and obtain permission from the original author and the publisher.

In the case of review papers or papers of a tutorial nature, much of the material may have been previously published. The source of such material must nevertheless be properly identified.

If an author submits a manuscript to MSJAR with significant overlap with a document submitted to another journal simultaneously, and this overlap is discovered during the review process or after the publication of both papers, the editor of the other journal is notified.

For self-plagiarism of less than one half of the paper but more than one-tenth of the article, the case shall be treated as intermediate plagiarism.

If self-plagiarism is confined to the methods section, the matter shall be considered as minor plagiarism.

In the case of a manuscript originally published in conference proceedings and subsequently submitted to MSJAR, either in identical or expanded form, the authors must identify the name of the conference proceedings and the date of printing and obtain permission to republish from the copyright holder.

An author may use material from an unpublished presentation, including visual displays, in a subsequent journal publication.

In the case of a paper originally published in another language, the title, date, and journal of the original publication must be identified by the authors, and the necessary copyright permission must be obtained.

The Editor may select a specific previously published paper, for example a historic paper, for republication to provide a better perspective of a series of articles published in an issue of MSJAR. Such republication shall be clearly identified, and the date and journal of the original publication shall be given. Permission from the author(s) and publisher shall be obtained.

The MSJAR layout editor is responsible for maintaining the list of authors subjected to penalties and will check that no authors of a submitted paper are on this list.

If a banned author is identified, the layout editor will inform the Editor-in-Chief, who will take appropriate measures.

This policy will be posted on the journal website together with the instructions for submitting a manuscript. A copy will also be sent to the authors with the confirmation email upon initial receipt of their original paper.

A sentence shall be added to the copyright transfer form to indicate that the author(s) have read and understood the Plagiarism Policy .