Plagiarism Policy

Philosophy and Local Wisdom Journal recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) upon identification of plagiarism/similarities in articles submitted for publication in Philosophy and Local Wisdom Journal . Philosophy and Local Wisdom Journal  will use Turnitin's originality checking software as the tool in detecting similarities of texts in article manuscripts and the final version of articles ready for publication. A maximum of 25% of similarities is allowed for the submitted papers. If we find more than 25% of the similarity index, the article will be returned to the author for correction and resubmission.