Originality (Protection and promotion of integrity in research)

All manuscripts may be submitted to internationally recognised plagiarism detection software. Please note that if plagiarism is detected in a manuscript, the author may face disciplinary charges as well as having the manuscript rejected for publication. Papers submitted to the journal must respect a high level of integrity and professionalism. Authors have a right, as well as a responsibility, to refrain from undertaking or continuing to undertake any research that contravenes ethical guidelines, violates the integrity and validity of research and/or compromises their autonomy in research, including design methodology, analysis and interpretation of findings. Contributors must be informed that the material submitted for publication must carry appropriate credits.

Africa Insight will not consider a manuscript that is being reviewed by another journal at the same time, nor will it consider an article that has been published previously in a similar form.

All papers accepted for publication in the Journal are subjected to a similarity test. Any result above 20% will be returned to the author. The institutional affiliation of an author must be informed if his/her submission has above 50% similarity index.