PLAGIARISM

  1. Lenvari: Journal of Social Science (JSS) is committed to maintaining high ethical standards and strongly opposes any form of plagiarism. Plagiarism occurs when significant portions of a manuscript are copied from previously published work without proper citation. All submitted manuscripts are checked for plagiarism using software like iThenticate or Turnitin.
  2. Plagiarism is the unethical practice of using someone else’s ideas, processes, results, or words without proper acknowledgment. Self-plagiarism happens when an author reuses large parts of their own previously published work without citing it appropriately. This can include publishing the same manuscript in different journals or making minimal changes to a previously published work.
  3. Manuscripts found to have plagiarism during the initial review will be immediately rejected. If plagiarism is discovered after publication, the Editor-in-Chief will conduct an investigation, potentially with the help of a committee.
  4. If the manuscript is found to contain plagiarism beyond acceptable limits, Lenvari: Journal of Social Science (JSS) will inform the author’s institution and any relevant funding agencies. A note of the plagiarism will be added to the online version of the article, linking it to the original source.
  5. The plagiarized article will be marked on each page of the PDF, and depending on the severity, the article may be formally retracted.

Types of Plagiarism

Lenvari: Journal of Social Science (JSS) identifies several types of plagiarism:

  1. Full Plagiarism: Copying content exactly from a source without any changes and presenting it as one’s own work.
  2. Partial Plagiarism: Combining text from multiple sources with heavy paraphrasing, without proper citation.
  3. Self-Plagiarism: Reusing one’s own previously published work without citing it. This includes republishing the same work in a different journal.

Lenvari: Journal of Social Science (JSS) values intellectual property and is committed to protecting and promoting the original work of its authors. Manuscripts with plagiarized content violate our standards for quality and originality. Authors are expected to adhere to ethical standards and avoid any form of plagiarism. If plagiarism is suspected in a submitted or published manuscript, Lenvari: Journal of Social Science (JSS) will ask the author(s) to provide an explanation within two weeks. This explanation may be reviewed by a Fact-Finding Committee (FFC). If no response is received, the journal will notify the Director, Dean, or Head of the author’s institution or university to take appropriate action.

Lenvari: Journal of Social Science (JSS) will take serious action against published manuscripts found to contain plagiarism, including removing them from the journal’s website and other indexing services. If an article in Lenvari: Journal of Social Science (JSS) is reported to contain plagiarism, the journal will form an FFC to investigate. If plagiarism is confirmed, Lenvari: Journal of Social Science (JSS) will support the original author and may take one or more of the following actions:

  1. Contact the author’s institution to recommend disciplinary action.
  2. Remove the plagiarized manuscript from the journal’s website and disable access to the full-text article, marking it as a “Plagiarized Manuscript.”
  3. Disable the author’s account and ban future submissions from the author for a set period or permanently.
  4. Publish the details of the offending authors on the journal’s website.

Other actions may be taken as recommended by the committee or as deemed necessary by the Editorial Board.