Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism Policy

  • Iqbal Review/Iqbaliyat is committed to advance original work of scholarship and strictly NO tolerance for plagiarism.
  • It is the author(s) responsibility to ascertain that he/she has submitted an entirely original work, giving due credit, by virtue of proper citations, to the works and/or words of others where they are used.
  • Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is not acceptable.
  • Material quoted verbatim from the author(s) previously published work or other sources must be placed in quotation marks.
  • In line with the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan policy and in conformity with the international publishing standard for academic writing, the submitted manuscript found to have a similarity index of more than 19% will either be rejected or left at the discretion of the editor for purposes of a conditional acceptance.
  • Authors can submit manuscript previously published in abstracted form, e.g. in the proceedings of an annual meeting, or in a periodical with limited circulation and availability e.g. reports by government agencies or university departments.
  • In case the research paper is part of the research thesis, the author shall make explicit statement to the managing editor at the time of submission that the work is from a research thesis along with other details. However, the thesis shall not be formally published in book form by any academic publisher.

Plagiarism Policy by HEC