Plagiarism Policy

The Nigeria Journal of Education, Health and Technology Research (NJEHETR) is committed to maintaining academic integrity, originality and responsible scholarly publishing.

The journal requires all submitted manuscripts to represent genuine scholarly contributions and to acknowledge appropriately all sources of information, ideas, data and previously published materials.

1. Plagiarism Assessment

All manuscripts submitted to NJEHETR are subject to plagiarism and similarity assessment as part of the editorial evaluation process.

The journal specifies a maximum similarity threshold of 30%.

Manuscripts exceeding this threshold are not eligible for publication under the journal's stated policy.

2. Forms of Plagiarism

The journal recognises the following forms of academic misconduct:

  • Direct plagiarism: Copying text or materials from another source without appropriate acknowledgement.

  • Self-plagiarism: Reusing substantial portions of one's previously published work without appropriate disclosure.

  • Mosaic plagiarism: Combining copied expressions from different sources without proper attribution.

  • Improper paraphrasing: Presenting another person's ideas or findings as original work.

  • Data and figure plagiarism: Reproducing tables, figures, images or research data without appropriate acknowledgement or permission.

3. Editorial Assessment

Manuscripts may be subjected to similarity screening during initial editorial assessment and at subsequent stages where necessary.

The editorial team may request clarification, corrections or revisions where similarity concerns are identified.

4. Consequences of Plagiarism

Depending on the seriousness of the identified misconduct, the journal may:

  1. Reject the submitted manuscript.

  2. Request appropriate corrections and proper referencing.

  3. Suspend the review process pending clarification.

  4. Withdraw an accepted manuscript before publication.

  5. Retract a published article where serious plagiarism is established.

5. Author Responsibility

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their submissions are original, properly referenced and compliant with accepted academic standards.

The similarity percentage alone does not automatically establish plagiarism. Editorial assessment should consider the nature, source and context of matching text.

Similarity Threshold: Maximum 30%.

Journal: NJEHETR
ISSN: 2251-0087
Website: https://njehetr.com.ng
Email: aprehetjournals@gmail.com

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