Nsibidi Journal of Humanities follows strict code of conduct and aims to adhere to its best practice guidelines.
Plagiarism is the use of others published and unpublished ideas or words (or other intellectual property) without attribution or permission, and presenting them as new and original rather than derived from an existing source. All manuscripts published by Nsibidi Journal of Humanities are committed to publishing only original materials, which have neither been published elsewhere, nor under review elsewhere. Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will incur severe penalties.
Duplicate Submission refers to the "practice of submitting the same manuscript to two or more journals at the same time" without informing the journal editor that the manuscript has been submitted elsewhere. Manuscripts that are found to have been published elsewhere, or to be under review elsewhere, will incur severe penalties.
All listed authors and co-authors of a submitted manuscript are required to have made significant contribution to the research in the manuscript.
Submitted manuscripts that are found to include irrelevant citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number of citations to a given author’s work will incur severe penalties. Citation manipulation or excessive self-citation is more prominent when submitted manuscripts are found to include citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number of citations to a given author's work.
Submitted manuscripts that are found to have either fabricated or falsified information will incur severe penalties.
