Plagiarism Policy

Pakistan Journal of Physiology strictly follows guidelines from Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan, Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) for plagiarism. We use ‘TurnItIn’ software for checking similarity index. Higher Education Commission guidelines are used to make decisions regarding the similarity index. It is the authors’ responsibility to appraise themselves of plagiarism in any form including paraphrasing, self-plagiarism and salami slicing etc. Manuscripts submitted to PJP can be sent to HEC, other medical journals’ editors and international agencies for authentication of originality. The Disciplinary Committee of PJP would deal with cases of plagiarism and comprise of the staff, Editors, and the Chief Editor or their representatives. For a plagiarized article in processing, the identification of act will lead to dropping of article from further processing/consideration for publication. The author will be required to give an explanation on demand. In case of an unsatisfactory reply, the matter will be referred to the disciplinary committee that may decide the course of action. For a published article, the allegedly plagiarized article will be temporarily retracted from publication and a notice to the effect will be published in the PJP. The author will be served an explanation. In case of non-response in the stipulated time or unsatisfactory explanation, the article will be permanently retracted and the author will be on watch. Higher Education Commission, PMDC and authors' institute will also be notified. In case of multiple submissions, other editors will also be informed. The author(s) will have to provided documentary proof of retraction from publication, if such a defence is pleaded. Those claiming intellectual/idea or data theft of an article must provide documentary proof in their claim.