Alaztha Nursing Journal (ANJ) requires that every published article must be free from publication misconduct and other forms of academic misconduct, including:

• Fabrication
  Making up data or research results that have never been conducted or do not exist.
• Falsification
  Manipulating, altering, or misrepresenting research data so that it does not accurately reflect the actual findings.
• Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism
  Using others’ ideas, work, or text without proper attribution, or reusing one’s own previously published work without appropriate acknowledgment.
• Similarity Check
  Manuscripts must have a similarity index below 20% based on Turnitin or similar plagiarism detection tools.

Any suspected publication ethics violations will be handled in accordance with editorial policies and applicable standards of scholarly publishing ethics.