Plagiarism Policy

All submitted manuscripts are checked for plagiarism after submission and before starting review.

If plagiarism is detected by the editorial board, reviewer, or editor at any stage — before or after acceptance, during editing, or at proof stage — we alert the author(s) and ask them to rewrite the content or cite the original references. If more than 25% of the paper is plagiarized, the article may be rejected.

If plagiarism is detected after publication, the journal will conduct an investigation and contact the author's institute and funding agencies. The paper will be marked on each page of the PDF. Depending on the extent, the paper may be formally retracted.

• Direct Copying: Copying exact content or purposely using portions of another author's paper without citation.
• Figures & Illustrations: Copying figures, tables, equations, or illustrations without acknowledging the source.
• Internet Content: Using text downloaded from the internet or copying photographs and diagrams without attribution.
• Self-Plagiarism: Verbatim reuse of significant portions of one's own copyrighted work without citing the original source.
• Accidental Plagiarism: Authors may not know they are plagiarizing. It is the author's responsibility to understand proper quoting and paraphrasing.
• Blatant Plagiarism: Purposefully using someone else's ideas or work without proper acknowledgment, including bought or borrowed research papers.

By submitting a manuscript, it is understood that it is original, unpublished work and not under consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts may be checked for originality using anti-plagiarism software.

If you come across plagiarism in any journal, please inform the editorial offices with journal names, manuscript titles, author names, and publication details. Contact us at casereports@jcrspublications.com.