Plagiarism Policy

Legal Research & Analysis upholds the highest standards of academic integrity and adopts a zero-tolerance policy toward plagiarism in all its forms, including self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, and unethical textual reuse. All submitted manuscripts undergo mandatory plagiarism screening using professional tools such as Turnitin or equivalent software during the initial editorial review.

Plagiarism encompasses:

·       Literal copying of text without permission, attribution, or citation.

·       Substantial copying of significant portions of another work, assessed by both quality and quantity.

·       Paraphrasing ideas, phrases, or structures from sources without proper acknowledgment.

Authors bear full responsibility for ensuring the originality of their work and accurately citing all sources. Minor overlaps, such as standard legal definitions or established methodological descriptions, must still be properly referenced. Manuscripts must demonstrate a similarity index of less than 20% (excluding bibliography), with no single source exceeding 4% similarity.

Confirmed plagiarism results in:

·       Immediate rejection of the submission.

·       Notification to the author's institution or employer, where appropriate.

·       Potential ban on future submissions.

·       Retraction of published articles if plagiarism is identified post-publication, with a notice issued in accordance with COPE guidelines.

The journal adheres to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines for investigating and resolving plagiarism allegations transparently and fairly.