Plagiarism Policy

Gusau International Journal of Management and Social Sciences (GIJMSS) is committed to maintaining high standards through an indept peer-review process with sound ethical policies. All papers are passed through a double-blind peer-review process and must make a significant contribution to the field, with sound conceptual quality, appropriate methodology and, clarity of exposition. Any infringements of professional ethical codes, such as plagiarism; including self-plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, are seriously frowned at by the journal with zero tolerance.

GIJMSS implements the Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and uses the COPE Flowcharts for Resolving cases of suspected plagiarism or any publication misconduct.

In order to avoid plagiarism cases with the GUJAF, the following guidelines must be strictly adhered to by authors:

1. Authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
2. An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
3. Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be adhered to. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Repository Policies

Authors are free to deposit their papers in all versions including submitted, accepted and published version in any institutional or other repository of their choice without embargo from the Gusau International Journal of Management and Social Sciences.