General Policies

Content Originality Policy:
The content originality is checked via Plagiarism Checker X and Turnitin softwares.
Stratagem follows a strict zero tolerance policy for plagiarism. Within the limitations stipulated by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, similarity index can be allowed by the Editorial Board. In case, any single source has similarity index greater than or equal to 5% without citation then it needs to be revised. The judgement of the Editorial Board shall be final.

Article Processing Fee:
Stratagem does not levy any article processing charges, submission charges, page charges, or colour charges.

Open Access Statement:
This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Privacy Statement:
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Copyrights:

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Stratagem by Centre for Strategic and Contemporary Research is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.