Plagiarism and Misconduct

Plagiarism and Misconduct Policy

Any manuscript submitted to an Open Medical Publishing journal must be original and must not be under consideration by any other journal. The Editorial Board of our journals will immediately screen all submitted manuscripts for plagiarism and any form of academic misconduct.

Plagiarism Detection

All submissions are screened using plagiarism detection software. Manuscripts with significant textual overlap with previously published work will be rejected. Authors who repeatedly submit plagiarized work may be banned from future submissions.

Types of Misconduct

• Fabrication: Making up data or results and recording or reporting them
• Falsification: Manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results
• Plagiarism: Appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit
• Duplicate submission: Submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals simultaneously

Actions

When misconduct is detected, the following actions may be taken depending on the severity:

• Rejection of the manuscript
• Retraction of the published article
• Notification of the author's institution
• Ban from future submissions
• Referral to appropriate authorities