Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism Policy

All manuscripts under review or published with MDJ are subject to screening using Plagiarism Prevention Software Turnitin. Plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics. Other violations include duplicate publication, data fabrication and falsification, and improper credit of author contribution.  Thus, Plagiarism or Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour are unacceptable, and submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable. It is necessary to mention that MDJ may ignore a duplicated manuscript of up to 15% similarity ratio including the AI usage. It is the responsibility of author(s) to enssure that the similarity index is within the 15% limit till the publication of the article. In the meantime, the AI index must be less than 5%.

 

All new submissions to MDJ are screened using Turnitin. Editorial board members may also choose to run a similarity report at any other point during the review process or post-publication. The default similarity report view gives the percentage of the text of the manuscript which has overlap with one or more published articles.