The Journal of Psychology: Research & Practice strictly adheres to the HEC guidelines and criteria concerning the Turnitin Originality Report and all forms of plagiarism. Every submitted manuscript undergoes plagiarism screening through Turnitin software. Manuscript with a similarity index exceeding 19% is not considered for further processing.

• Authors are responsible for ensuring their work is free from all forms of plagiarism including paraphrasing and self-plagiarism.
• Submissions must represent entirely original work, with proper acknowledgement and citation of all sources used.
• The Turnitin Similarity Index must be below 19%
• Any instance of plagiarism, data fabrication, or image manipulation is strictly prohibited.
• Reused text from other sources must be enclosed in quotation marks and properly citated.
• If plagiarism is identified during peer review, the manuscript may be rejected; if discovered after publication, a correction or retraction may be issued.

HEC Plagiarism Policy can be viewed by the following links.

• HEC Plagiarism Policy

https://www.glrjournal.com/docs/hec-plagiarism-policy.pdf

• Turnitin Guidelines

https://www.hec.gov.pk/english/services/faculty/Documents/Plagiarism/Guidelines%20on%20Turnitin.pdf